And still people will take it up the ass happily.
We have to. How else am I going to keep my free obamaphone if not for my unconditional love of the government? How else are my kids going to be fed growing up in public school if not for Michelle's generosity?
I know of no other way to live except by the good graces of our leaders.
Someone else lands on hard times, I'm sorry, my hands are tied, if I come to your aid I risk losing my aid.
The only thing government or any of its rabid bootlickers really care about that relates to this is: how can they keep doing this, and much more, just not get caught at it. They'll probably just resort to the usual- demonizing everyone who falls victim to this sort of thing as 'greedy' and 'rich' and 'unwilling to pay their fair share' and all the other bullshit they usually use. Once they start ringing those bells, the usual govt suck-ups will fall right in line, covering for their precious government and demonizing their fellow citizens. It never fails.Wow, that's some kind of screwed up. Hopefully the courts throw this out and put an end to it once and for all. A good example of how once you grant government any power, it will be used and abused, no matter all the assurances that it won't.
I like it. If a child can inherit wealth, they should also be able to inherit debt. Why should a creditor get screwed because the borrower kicked the bucket?
The Social Security Administration announced Monday it will immediately cease efforts to collect on taxpayers debts to the government that are more than 10 years old.
The action comes after The Washington Post reported that the government is seizing state and federal tax refunds that were on their way to about 400,000 Americans who had relatives who owed money to Social Security. In many cases, the people whose refunds were intercepted had never heard of any debt and the debts dated as far back as the middle of the past century.
I have directed an immediate halt to further referrals under the Treasury Offset Program to recover debts owed to the agency that are 10 years old and older pending a thorough review of our responsibility and discretion under the current law, Social Securitys acting commissioner, Carolyn Colvin, said in a statement.
Colvin said that anyone who received Social Security or Supplemental Security Income benefits and believes they have been incorrectly assessed with an overpayment should contact the agency and seek options to resolve the overpayment.
The effort to collect on old debts began with a single line in the 2008 farm bill, lifting the statute of limitations on debts to the government that are more than 10 years old. The Treasury Department then set up rules that allowed the government to settle such debts by intercepting taxpayers refunds. Treasury has collected about $2 billion in intercepted tax refunds this year, $75 million of that on debts delinquent for more than 10 years.
Good news. Hopefully this gets repealed in law rather than just fading away until no one is paying attention anymore, then reinstated.It's over, this was too much of a hot potato for anyone to defend it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit..._story.html?algtrack=mixedrec-1&tid=btm_rex_1
Good news. Hopefully this gets repealed in law rather than just fading away until no one is paying attention anymore, then reinstated.
And hopefully the good people of Minnesota kick Collin Peterhead out of office so hard he bounces.
This is 90% of the problem with Congress, the idea that one is not responsible for what comes out of one's committee. Every committee chair and ranking minority member needs to be held responsible for every single thing in every bill they pass out of committee, and every single Congresscritter needs to be held responsible for every single thing in every bill for which they vote. If it's a good and necessary bill with just a horrendous addition, or if you tried to kill it but didn't have the votes, then be responsible for at least raising holy hell so that people know the stink bomb is inside. As it stands, far too much egregious crap coming out of Congress is considered "just a bunch of stuff that happened" and no one is ever held responsible for it. Power without responsibility is a very bad thing.Dude such miss information??? Never miss an opportunity to lie and blame.
Just because you chair a committee doesn't make you responsible for 100% of the laws passed by that body.
Lets put responsibility on
SSA - Michael J. Astrue (GONE!)
Most likely bill author - Todd Russell Platts (GONE!)
anything else is just baiting.
Surely they can at least read everything. And unfortunately, taking out the hidden rider is what should have been done at the committee level. Now it is a matter of law and can be enforced (or apparently now, ignored) at government's whim.You can't micro and macro manage everything dude.
In reality they just have to take out the hidden rider.
Surely they can at least read everything. And unfortunately, taking out the hidden rider is what should have been done at the committee level. Now it is a matter of law and can be enforced (or apparently now, ignored) at government's whim.
Yes. EVERY sentence. EVERY word. EVERY bill.1 sentence in what surely must be a 100+ page bill, given 2 days before the deadline.
Wow that is shitty.
So in that same context, since my dad is considered 90% disabled by the VA from his time in the service (left in '68) and he didn't start getting benefit payments until 2012, does that mean the government owes him 44 years of back payments since they underpaid him?
This is just the start of stuff like this. In another 10 years things are going to be getting aggressive in terms of getting tax revenue. The IRS is getting many other countries to agree to treaties for finding overseas US money.
I like how it is a one way street. If the government underpaid you, too bad lol.
That's what I do. If I want a bank, I use a bank(credit union really). The government isn't a bank I trust, so they get a check.
It's truly depressing how few people understand this.
holy fuck you need to find a fucking fire
obama deporting a shit ton of mexicans is what got him in trouble around the election and he had to try to aplease mexicans to avoid getting defeated in the election
obama deported far many more mexicans than bush ever did
Surely they can at least read everything.
It's over, this was too much of a hot potato for anyone to defend it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...&tid=btm_rex_1
No its not over. they are still going after kids for their parents debts they just put a cap on anything older than 10 years. and they are keeping the 2 BILLION they have confiscated.
So apparently the law is being enforced as it was prior to being changed in 2008. Apparently the difference in right wing perception is because... Obama!
1 proof of this
2 why is everything a rightwing/leftwing thing with you?
3 holding the children of parents accountable for something that happened when they were minors and without due process is unconstitutional as fuck.
You can't micro and macro manage everything dude.
In reality they just have to take out the hidden rider.