Word: taxman
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...highway' approach to legislating in this Congress," said Minority Leader Dick Gephardt. "My assessment after just a few weeks of this Congress is that bipartisanship is over." Could he have been miffed that Republicans threw a celebratory party - complete with balloons and a playing of "Taxman" - before the bill was even passed, so they could get it on the evening news? Or was he merely hurt that George W. Bush, for all his talk, has still not deigned to make the words "bipartisan consensus" more than a campaign slogan...
...Back in 1998, right around tax time, grandstanding congressmen paraded wronged taxpayers in front of the cameras, passed a few bits of taxpayer's-rights legislation, and demanded a kinder, gentler IRS - a taxman with a smile. Two years later, it turns out he's practically toothless...
...Honor thy taxman...
...cheaters don't get caught will only breed other cheaters, whether or not they think they've got the Constitution backing them up. When the cops are off the streets, eventually the fear goes away. And few things tempt Americans more than the prospect of sticking it to the taxman and getting away with...
...Honor the taxman, people. Throw a couple of hundred billion his way. Upgrade his computers. Staff his enforcement arm. And simplify the tax code, so paying is easier and cheating easier to spot. Face it: We need these guys. Taxpaying is the foundation of civil society, and an effective taxman is the government institution on which all others are built...