Return to Article: Bush to propose allowing limited private tax collection
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As I've mentioned in prior letters to GOVEXEC- this administration just simply doesn't care. Even if Congress said no a hundred times to this proposal, the administration is deaf and will push forward regardless of the consequences. >{? Tax revenue collection is just about the most governmentally inherent function there is-- even in the Middle Ages, the tax collectors worked directly for the King.
To give this function to a private collection company and pay them a huge contract fee to do what the government should and must do is just crazy-- but fully in line with an administration interested in privitizing the entire government function regardless of the cost.
Well, I hope IRS' plan to give this function to the private sector works better than TSP's plan giving the creation of the TSP computer structure to AMS or TSA's contracting out of their HR functions. Of course that is under the assumption that this administration has any interest in collecting tax revenue at all- if the contract fails, some in this administration would view it as a huge success.
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Another bad idea back for another round! These idiots don't know their history and don't know their heads from a hot rock. Seems to me there was a test project not too long ago, and surprise! surprise! the confidential information wasn't confidential any more. It takes a definite acculturization (and years of threats) to get people to learn to keep their traps shut, documents covered up, etc. to the extent that federal people have to. (A steady, full-time job with benefits helps, too - I've done my share of part-time/as-needed, etc.) This needs to be publicized so people can fight it.
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Of all the...... If there is *anything* in this world that's "inherently governmental" it's the collection of taxes. To lay off 2,400 workers and then hire a contractor (who will get a significant percentage of the take) seems slightly amiss. Here's hoping that wiser heads rule on this and send it back to its source with the message that not only is this stupid, but REALLY stupid.
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I guess we still haven't learned that contractors with access to our government dollars will lie and steal from the people. When will this stop? These people have obligations to stockholders not the American people, and act accordingly. And now we will have a Mafia leg breaker force stealing from both ends with no supervision or oversight. There are mechanisms in place to make people pay their taxes. Use them. Don't add another bill to the people.
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