Less attention to detail = fewer mistakes/lies caught = fewer audits = less money spent on IRS admin = we keep more of our money, ethically or not. Heh.

When you or I or someone we know makes a money mistake we are called to account for it!

At a minimum we get yelled at and may end up hurting our reputations. Depending what it is we have to pay more, pay fines, even go to court or possibly jail! (in the extreme of course)

But not government.

When Congressmen, Senators, the President etc. waste our money they NEVER get in trouble for it. At worst, they get “fired” in that they don’t win re-election. And that’s only sometimes.

How many years have we heard that Social Security is bankrupt? Or Medicare? Or now that $350 billion out of $700 billion is gone and no one knows where? But no one has been called to a Grand Jury or spent a day in jail for any of this that I know of.

But a CEO redecorates his office and they want his head on a pike.

That’s why we are doomed.

Although I don’t give them the credit you do.
There is NO way anyone who is bright enough to make it all the way to Congress, was unaware that they did NOT pay taxes that they were supposed to. We are not talking about a mistake in adding numbers together; they left off tens of thousands of dollars in income. The amounts they failed to pay on are more than a lot of people make in a year.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt and saying that they are not criminals for intentionally dodging taxes, then the only reasonable explanation left is that they are incompetent.

I don’t want anyone who can’t accurately prepare their own taxes to manage a budget for America.

These screw ups only came clean when they were found out. I would like someone to review the returns on all members of Congress. Let’s see how many of these ‘public servants’ failed to pay taxes on money they made.

It’s a shame that we allow people who are supposed to have the Nation’s best interest in mind, to profit from serving in public office. I think it’s a tough job and they should be paid well. But these people are simply taking what they want. They are blatant about it because they never suffer any consequences.

We will never change this type of behavior until we start holding people in higher office to a higher standard.

I want smart, dedicated people to serve America. These are not roles where we can have someone half-ass there way through it. These are people who are there to make sure, NOT to guess, that things are getting done. We need to weed out the lazy, do-nothing jerks, lying to the American people for their own self-serving wants.

I am still proud of America, but I know we can do better.