Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Government Looking out for You

The IRS was caught not paying taxpayers their refunds because they were suspected of fraud. That's all well and good except for the fact that they didn't tell the affected taxpayers. In essence accusing taxpayers of a crime and not informing them of it. If a private enterprise such as Citibank froze your bank account because you were suspected of not paying your CitiCard credit card fees, there would be hell to pay from the government. But since it's a government mistake the IRS, out of the kindness of their hearts, are going to go ahead and tell the people they're suspected of fraud. I thought people were supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, it seems that that may be true unless it's a government agency doing the accusing. They'll decide if you're guilty and they'll take their sweet time doing it.

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