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Should enQ Get To Sell Spots In IRS Phone Queue?

Should enQ Get To Sell Spots In IRS Phone Queue?

I really hope that this plan does not work, because there is something about it that offends my sensibilities.  It is taking something that is free now and turning it into a commodity.  I could build a rationale for it, but I rate this as worse than what the rental car companies do when they sell the same couple of gallons of gas over and over and try to intimidate you into buying overpriced insurance.  Or the airlines who arrange their cabins on the principle that most people are short and charge extra for seats that don’t require people over six feet tall to contort themselves.

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IRS Rules Bingo Is For Charities Not A Charity In Itself

IRS Rules Bingo Is For Charities Not A Charity In Itself

The portion of the IRS that concerns itself with exempt organizations is reeling from the fallout of the interminable scandal.  It has come in for criticism from the other side now for its granting of exempt status to Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, which was pretty explicitly started to avoid spending disclosure for poltical activity.  And here we have the IRS worrying about what organizations can run bingo.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.