14 reasons why this is the worst congress ever!!!

[Kasz216]

badgenome said:

Kasz216 said:

I approve of the IRS.

It's not their fault congress gives them such stupid shitty tax laws to work with.  They're just doing their job.

Also, unless you know someone particularly rich and a tax cheat it's unlikely you will know someone screwed by them, since they tend to mostly only audit the rich, because investigating and prosecuting the poor costs more then it brings in.  So they only prosecute a small portion to keep up enough risk to make some worry.

 

So really, all most people know the IRS for are frustrating forms that come with a  bonus check of money at the end of the year.

That's true re: the tax code, but the IRS manages to do some insanely fucked up shit all on its own. What's next? Taxing a woman on her vagina because she could be using it to earn money as prostitute? It's not the IRS' fault if she isn't!

Eh, just because it doesn't have a value in the US doesn't mean it doesn't have value.  In another country I'm sure it would fetch quite a bit.

I'd assess it at a valuable equal to it's market value in a country where it would be legal to sell it.

Otherwise you'd just give people a decent loophole to avoid the system.  (Whether or not we should have the system is a different question.)