Then, I'm in trouble. I do many LEGAL transactions for cash...sometimes a decent pile of it. They're not going to like that and I'll have some 'splaining to do...

That equates to about 2,810 working people being monitored by 1 employee...that wouldn't overload a computer and considering the salaries being paid at the IRS not being overworked.

Make that 'to a great extent'. As for me, he can 'Spit in one hand and wish in the other' and see which one fills up first. There are foreign banks that would love this move. But our American banks better get off the pot or they'll be out of business.

The IRS may come to a grinding halt if this happens. As it is, they don't know or understand their own rules. When the filing date was delayed to July last year, they sat on their hands and processed no returns until after the delay, when they could have proceeded with early filers. That late start created a choke point that they still haven't caught up from, and they did the same thing this year when the delay was just a month.

Expect to be subject to accusations of tax evasion and worse, based on their incompetence. This is headed to a SCOTUS case, for sure, but the rest of us will suffer the consequences until this idiot administration is run out of town.

3.5 "trillion", not "million".

Yes, I had the exact same reaction. 4th Amendment time!

Oh dear, I worked too many years for an Actuary.
This equates that working 2,078 hours a year and each employee having to handle 2,810 tax payers that would mean spending 1 hour and 35 minutes a year on each taxpayer while working a 40 hour week at the IRS. Do they work 40 hours a week?

I guess this is to justify the $11,303 billion dollar budget and to pay the 74,454 employees at the IRS. Dear Lord, haven't they heard of computers?

To a certain extent it's already happening:

https://www.sapling.com/4672449/trans...

I only put into the bank what I need to pay the monthly bills...Expenses and Taxes.

There has never been a day in the life of the IR.S. that they have been efficient in anything except finding ways to steal more money. They lie and cheat like good little leftists, sending a "final notice" the day after they freeze your account, while neglecting to actually send out any previous notices at all. Personal experience, not hearsay.

Declaration of War against the People.
Who is Henry Bowman?

Ok, so DT the pot-banger is back with another of his mantras: Why aren't non-collectivists thinking in terms of activism instead of just defensive reaction? When will they learn that a.) the collectivist crowd have long since embraced an always-on hatchery of new assaults on reason, individualism, capitalism and liberty that maintains a vertiable fire-hose output, and that b.) we must do precisely the same, in terms of continuously brainstorming and championing new measures in favor of reason, individualism, capitalism and liberty?

IOW, instead of that thing David Kelley once criticized (correctly) as limiting the sum total of one's actions to "Contemplating the awfulness of the enemy," we should take every one of these new collectivist outrages and turn it, instantly, into proposals for obliterating the problem at hand, right at its root. Put differently: WE HIT BACK. HARD. To the case-in-point:

For many years, including four in which I sent more than a few such requests - ignored - to Trump's White House Comment page, I've advocated for a sweeping but simple way to abolish and dismantle the IRS once and for all. It goes like this:

Taking the 16th Amendment as a given - for the moment - the only proper, ethical role that the IRS ought to have, is as a simple accounting agency. It tallies the tax receipts by the Federal government, it bills people who have fallen short on their imposed tax bills, it refunds to people who have had too much withheld. And that's it.

Which any large accounting firm could handle. And should.

So the thing Republican leadership - wherever such may be found - should be demanding and fighting for, to full implementation, is the abolition of the IRS as an agency in favor of a farmed-out accounting contract to a private accounting firm. Which contract to be awarded to the winner of an open bidding competition, and given for a predetermined period, maybe three years, before the contract is automatically placed open once again, for bids on the next three-year period.

Anyone persistently refusing to pay "owed" taxes - again, the propriety of taxation and of tax rates themselves comprising an entirely separate issue - could be referred to similarly-private collection agencies, just as anyone who defaults on any other bill.

This would not only eliminate the IRS as an agency, it would in one Gordian-Knot-slice eliminate all existing "enforcement" powers associated with that noxious entity, and all associated abuses such as ideologically-motivated weaponization.

A secondary, comparatively-minor but nonetheless powerful activist proposal: How difficult would it be for Republican leadership - wherever such may be found - to author, aggressively, as many bills, riders and appendages as is necessary, to move Tax Deadline Day from April 15 to October 15? Granted, we have arguably already lost the right to vote in free and fair elections - also due to Republican/Trumpian ineptitude and default - so the whole thing may be moot in any case. But to get the idea out there.

That is all. 8^]
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