{"id":1141,"date":"2012-06-21T12:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2012-06-21T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:20:41","slug":"leaving-385-billion-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/leaving-385-billion-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving $385 billion on the table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring the tax gap<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re not Greece but the IRS could do a better job<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/20\/ignoring_the_tax_gap\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/20\/ignoring_the_tax_gap\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a passage in the article the IRS fails to collect $385 billion each _year_.  According to my calculations, over 10 years (why do these morons do everything at 10 years now?  Why not 100?  1000?) that winds up being $3.8 trillion dollars, a lot of green even for Congress!  What proportion of does that represent of our total tax revenue?  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgovernmentrevenue.com\/\">this<\/a> the US brings in $5.1 trillion per year, so $385 represents over 7.5% of our total revenues.  Something tells me simply collecting these revenues would magically solve all our social safety net problems or even pay for the war with Iran!<\/p>\n<p>I feel quite certain that it would cost the IRS a lot less than $385 billion to collect that money as well, so a massive return on investment.  Something that you would think the GOP would support, except, of course, that they are adamant that only poor and middle class pay taxes and I bet most of these scofflaws are not either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring the tax gap We&#8217;re not Greece but the IRS could do a better job http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/20\/ignoring_the_tax_gap\/ According to a passage in the article the IRS fails to collect $385 billion each _year_. According to my calculations, over 10 years (why do these morons do everything at 10 years now? Why not 100? 1000?) that winds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/leaving-385-billion-on-the-table\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaving $385 billion on the table&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}