Owe Taxes? No Government Job!

According to an article written in the LA Times on September 10th 2010; 41 "Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes -- and they're not alone. We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. 638 workers on Capitol Hill owe the IRS $9.3 million in back taxes. Tom Daschle was the president's top pick to run the Health and Human Services Dept. But it turned out the former Democratic senator, who was un-elected from South Dakota in 2004, owed something like $120,000 to the IRS for things from his subsequent benefactor that he just forgot to pay taxes on. In the House of Representatives, 421 people owe a total $6,524,892. In the Senate, 217 owe $2,774,836. In the IRS' parent department, Treasury, 1,204 owe $7,670,814. At the Labor Department, where Secretary Hilda Solis' husband had some back-tax problems before her confirmation, 463 owe $7,481,463. Eighty-one workers for the Federal Reserve System's board of governors owe $1,076,733. Over at the Justice Department, which is so busy enforcing other laws and suing Arizona, 1,971 employees still owe $14,350,152 in overdue taxes. Then, we come to the Department of Homeland Security, which is run by Janet Napolitano, the former governor of Arizona who preferred to call terrorist acts "man-caused disasters." Homeland Security is keeping all of us safe by ensuring that a brave Dutch tourist is aboard every inbound international flight to thwart any would-be bomber with explosives in his underpants. Within that department, there reside 4,856 people who owe the tax agency a whopping total of $37,012,174."

According to ABC News: "Currently, only IRS employees can be terminated for non-payment of federal income taxes -- a measure Chaffetz wants extended to all federal agencies. The IRS has the lowest level of tax delinquency among its employees than at any other federal agencies, according to the most recent statistics."

This is unreal! and it is a slap in the face of all Americans. Our taxes pay their wages! If they are not going to pay their taxes, they should not be eligible to hold those positions. Elected officials should be ineligible to run or hold office if they cannot pay their fair share. How can they expect us to pay our taxes (the ones they raise all too often) if they don't pay theirs.

Anyone who runs for office, should be audited by the IRS. Their records for the past 10 years should be released for public scrutiny. If they are found to be delinquent, then they will not be placed on the ballot. Anyone already in office found to be delinquent on their taxes (and do not bring their account current within 6 months), will be removed from office; then they will be ineligible to run again.

Anyone who applies for a government job (or appointed to a government position), will have an IRS background check added to their list of qualifying standards. If they are found to be delinquent on their taxes, they will be removed for consideration for any government position. If they are already employed by the government and found to be delinquent on their taxes (and do not bring their account current within 12 months), they will be removed from their position and marked ineligible for rehire.

Government, should set the standard. That's The Way It Should Be.

South Fulton FD Refuses to Put Fire Out
A family is left without a home and with 3 dead dogs and a dead cat, after the South Fulton Tennessee fire department refused to put their house fire out since the family did’t pay a $75 fee to warrant their services.
The Cranick family, who lives in Obion County, next to South Fulton forgot to pay a $75 yearly fee for for fire service. Obion County does not have a county wide service, so they rely on South Fulton’s fire department to respond to any fires, but only if the homeowners pay a $75 fee each and every year. The Cranick family forgot to pay the fee, so the fire department refused to respond to the emergency call.
The fire department eventually showed up, but only to put out the fire that had spread to the neighbor’s yard, watching the Cranick’s house burned to the ground. “They put water out on the fence line out here. They never said nothing to me. Never acknowledged. They stood out here and watched it burn,” said Gene Cranick.

ARE WE KIDDING??? No, I am afraid not. This actually happened or didn't happen. Were I a federal prosecutor, I would bring the fire chief up on charges under the Rico act. Who runs the South Fulton Fire Department anyway? the Mob? the Mafia?, or the Cosa Nostra? These arrogant thugs have tarnished the brilliant reputation of firefighters everywhere. They might as well quit their jobs as firefighters, and take up careers more suited to their demeanor, becoming Lawyers, used car salesmen, or loan sharks (if those professions will have them).

First of all, the way it should be, is when someone doesn't choose to pay the fire response fee, and they have a fire, they get charged the entire cost of the fire department responding (gas, wages, etc.....). The fact that they stood around tells me they were intimidating the family.

What is next, Police allowing criminals to assault, or kill you, if you haven't paid them in advance?