IRS Chief Doesn’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?

Think about this for a minute, the new head of the IRS, Treasury Secretary Timothy Giethner did not pay his Social Security and Medicare taxes for 2001-4, when he was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (the IMF does not withhold taxes for its American employees).

He (Geithner) ultimately paid a total of more than $48,000 in back taxes and interest.  Note of course that part of this (why not all?) was paid ONLY AFTER HE WAS AUDITED in 2006 and the rest last November.

Note 2: “the rest last November” could very well have been after he got the call that he was on the short list for Obama’s cabinet.

I can see the To Do List now: 1) Clean up skeletons in closet.  2) Pay back taxes 3) Convince Congress is was an oversight 4) fix the economy 5) etc.

I have an idea: let’s ALL stop paying our taxes. Everyone refuse to send in their returns.  I suppose if you are owed money you would want to get a refund (interesting that they call it a “tax refund” when it was your money in the first place).  What are they going to do … come after ALL of us?

Remember Howard Beale in the movie Network?  He played the TV guy that exhorted everyone to open their windows and yell: “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more!”

Why aren’t we doing this now?  What is going on in our government is lunacy.  Our future Quality of Life is being jeopardized by what is going on.

So, what are you going to do?