Comments on: IRS Sends ‘Sovereign’ Inmate $327,456, But Not For Long

By: Dan Zabetakis

Dan Zabetakis — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:42:54 +0000

Are we supposed to believe this? That the IRS cut a check for $327K and not one actual person reviewed the documents? Are there so many refunds greater than 10 times the median US income that they cannot feasibly be checked even superficially?

If so, then there is a much bigger story that the sovereign citizen’s movement.

By: IThink

IThink — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:17:17 +0000

“No one seems to know exactly how much such fraudulent filings, including those from prisoners, are costing. In the latest public discussion of the topic, the Internal Revenue Service said that a computer program glitch intended to catch fraudulent filings wasn’t working in 2006 and only some 34% of the fraudulent claims filed the previous year were caught. That loss to the government was estimated at $200 million to $300 million.
Meanwhile, the growing legions of sovereign citizens and their anti-IRS allies in other antigovernment extremist groups continues to challenge the system.”
These two paragraphs infuriate me just thinking about them when we recall all the unemployed and otherwise poor people those hundreds of millions of dollars could’ve fed or housed…

By: Kiwiwriter

Kiwiwriter — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:05:44 +0000

Obi-Wan Kenobi tried to file for fake IRS returns?

Strong with the force not is he.