Funny the skills of the Danes, the Chinese, and the French don't seem to be dropping despite their extensive, extensive, extensive government programs.
It might have been "started" a year ago, but it was only wrapped up a few weeks ago when "she paid back $1,438 (plus penalties and interest!) on that issue." So it remains to be seen. I hope Obama's administration would wise up and target the Wall Street fat cats instead of us poor fledglings. But regardless of who's in power, the folks at IRS will always be morons. There's no ifs or buts.
Goddamn, can u imagine if the media-fed sheep actually did this. That would be "change"! Best words I've read on here in a while.
Let's be reasonable. The US is in a heap of trouble. The tax code sucks and is completely unmanageable. Defense and medical spending are out of control and bankrupting everyone except those on the take. We have progressively lost our freedom culminating with the Bush administration and the "Patriot Act." The response to 911 was idiotic. The decision to use ethanol from corn as a motor fuel was idiotic. The Cash for Clunkers was idiotic. The Bush mid-year tax rebate was insane. The total neglect of its regulatory duty by the Fed and the SEC during the Greenspan years in combination with Gramm's destruction of Glass-Steagal was disastrous. The Coziness of Wall Street and K-Street with Washington legislators is subverting the foundations of what was formerly a somewhat democratic representative republic. The Gerrymandering of congressional districts when Delay was in charge has created safe districts and subverted the public's ability to throw the rascals out. The interweaving of Church and State is working havoc upon the Constitution. The 200+ year-old constitution is obsolescent. The public schools are in trouble. Millions of jobs will be lost, never to return, to off-shore workers making a tiny fraction of US wages. The criminal justice system has made a mockery of the motto "justice for all". The corporations, not the citizens are in control of the country. And on and on. How much of this can so far be laid at Obama's feet. Very very little. Perhaps in a few years we will know if he, on balance, has made things worse or better. There is no way to know at this point. It took 200 years to get into this mess it will take a long time to get out of it, if that is even possible.