Comments on: Pushing A Tax Amnesty Program http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/05/pushing-a-tax-amnesty-program/ Political news in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York state. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:36:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Marita Dawber http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/05/pushing-a-tax-amnesty-program/comment-page-1/#comment-56870 Marita Dawber Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:43:50 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/?p=12386#comment-56870 Hay bro Good Evening.I am agree with your blog article about that but i found something strange that i felt you did not know the main problem before you posting this so i want to ask :where do you know about this dude ? Regards owner of wayan.web.id bye Hay bro Good Evening.I am agree with your blog article about that but i found something strange that i felt you did not know the main problem before you posting this so i want to ask :where do you know about this dude ? Regards owner of wayan.web.id bye

]]> By: anon http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/05/pushing-a-tax-amnesty-program/comment-page-1/#comment-48405 anon Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:48:40 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/?p=12386#comment-48405 There is nothing wrong with tax amnesty per se, but threatening to take peoples' liceneses away is overbroad and punitive. Typical liberal garbage. Jeff: there are already laws on the books to address people who cheat/do not pay their taxes. Enforce the existing laws! Jeff: Did it ever occur to you that sometimes people underpay or do not pay not because they are dishonest, but they have cash flow problems, medical issues or whatever. It is not an excuse, but taking their license away and putting them out of business is NOT the way to get money from them. They have to earn it to give it to the state. This is especially true now. The reality is that many small business owners, which this targets are sufferring now. Even if they made mistakes in the past and want to pay up, they cannot as their income is down so much that there is nothing left after food, utilities and the basics. So it seems nonsensical to me to take their livelyhood away, force them into bankrupcy and onto the streets and still not get blood from a stone is dumb. Better to work out a way to get the states' hands on their future earnings to pay the back taxes then prevent them from earning anything. There is nothing wrong with tax amnesty per se, but threatening to take peoples’ liceneses away is overbroad and punitive. Typical liberal garbage.

Jeff: there are already laws on the books to address people who cheat/do not pay their taxes. Enforce the existing laws!

Jeff: Did it ever occur to you that sometimes people underpay or do not pay not because they are dishonest, but they have cash flow problems, medical issues or whatever. It is not an excuse, but taking their license away and putting them out of business is NOT the way to get money from them. They have to earn it to give it to the state.

This is especially true now. The reality is that many small business owners, which this targets are sufferring now. Even if they made mistakes in the past and want to pay up, they cannot as their income is down so much that there is nothing left after food, utilities and the basics. So it seems nonsensical to me to take their livelyhood away, force them into bankrupcy and onto the streets and still not get blood from a stone is dumb. Better to work out a way to get the states’ hands on their future earnings to pay the back taxes then prevent them from earning anything.

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