Freethecrafts t1_j87eoik wrote on February 12, 2023 at 4:54 AM

Reply to comment by AdeptusDakkatist in Universal Basic Services in the US? by [deleted]

You could get trillions by removing the statute of limitations on tax crimes.

WollCel t1_j87f285 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 4:58 AM

This would have zero unintended fallout and would really help strengthen the confidence in the US legal system

Freethecrafts t1_j87f9lb wrote on February 12, 2023 at 5:00 AM

I’m good with it. There are whales who disappear for seven years, then magically reappear. The level of investigation it would take to find these people is grade school level.

WollCel t1_j87frxi wrote on February 12, 2023 at 5:05 AM

Do you think that perhaps the issue may not be with the laws and rather the investigators? I’m going to give you a hint that the people who end up getting hammered by the federal government and prosecutors aren’t the ones with legal teams and financial firms behind them.

Freethecrafts t1_j87gcv8 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 5:10 AM

Don’t you think flipping the script and changing the rules that allow the whales to violate the system is a better tact than leaving things in place?

The investigators are tied up in red tape and thousand page returns. You’re looking at number of “audits” to declare the system is rigged and the people investigating are corrupt. The IRS has nation state level computer programs to check simple returns. Every time someone misplaces a dollar, miscounts dependents, tries to claim someone else’s dependent, or even counts wrong an exception is generated. Then the IRS sends out a notice of correction and that counts as one of your numbers. People with tax attorneys are far less likely to make simple arithmetic errors, but they do have the means to obfuscate or disappear. The way you’re counting is wrong in how you’re going about claiming corruption.