A Little IRS Humor

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   GA Andersonposted 4 weeks ago

   The IRS hasn't been in the news much recently, so here's a little raw humor to stir the pot.
   
   The IRS budget has jumped from ~$11 Billion in 2010 to $20 billion in 2024.
   
   A Joke about the IRS (warning: PG-13)
   July 29, 2009 by Dan Mitchell
   
   The IRS sends their auditor to audit a synagogue.
   
   The auditor is doing all the checks, and then turns to the Rabbi and says, “I noticed that you buy a lot of candles.”
   
   “Yes,” answered the Rabbi.
   
   “Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?” he asked.
   
   “A good question,” noted the Rabbi. “We actually save them up. When we have enough, we send them back to the candle maker and every now and then, they send us a free box of candles.”
   
   “Oh,” replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that his question actually had a practical answer.  So he thought he’d try another question, in his obnoxious way. “Rabbi, what about all these matzo purchases?  What do you do with the crumbs from the matzo?
   
   “Ah, yes,” replied the Rabbi calmly, “we actually collect up the crumbs, we send them in a box back to the manufacturer and every now and then, they send a box of matzo balls.”
   
   “Oh,” replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the Rabbi.
   
   “Well, Rabbi,” he went on, “what do you do with all the foreskins from the circumcisions?”
   
   “Yes, here too, we do not waste,” answered the Rabbi.  “What we do is save up all the foreskins, and when we have enough we actually send them to the IRS.”
   
   “To the IRS ?” questioned the auditor in disbelief.
   
   “Ah, yes,” replied the Rabbi, “directly to The IRS …And about once a year, they send us a little prick like you.”
   
   Or, is this the joke:
   
   
   
   The Act's projected increase was ~$85 billion ($851 billion over 10 years). $1.3 billion vs, $85 billion has to be a joke, right?
   
   GA

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      Sharlee01posted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

      The joke was great!
      
      That's quite a difference between the projected and actual figures. It raises questions about the accuracy of the initial projections and who in the world came up with that projection...   The real joke, no one will...
      
      
      
      This one really called for a chart.

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      tsmogposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

      Ha-ha Fantastic, short story humor. The final joke posted I got a kick out of too. Taxes should be an art category at a modern art museum. Definitely could be abstract, probably surreal, maybe impressionism, and toss in pop art.
      
      The following is surreal art for money the subject of taxes.
      
      

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         GA Andersonposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

         Damn, a reptilian eye . . .  Now I'll be 'pondering' who or what that eye represents for hours. The government? The IRS, the Illuminati, the Rothschilds, the Blackrocks . . . or, Sauron?
         
         GA

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            tsmogposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

            hmmm . . . I remembered Sauron from reading, but have not seen the films. I peeked finding a short one minute synopsis about Sauron and the eye metaphor.
            
            https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-7jsFrC9 … ture=share
            
            One could say an eye represents vision and money the rewards of effort while questioning whose.
            
            For me, the image may be saying, "Mine, mine, mine!" I could run with that seeking an esoteric meaning.

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   Ken Burgessposted 4 weeks ago

   Oh yeah, they have been active, many people I know have been hit with a 'you owe us money' letter from the IRS this year.
   
   It is going to become brutal after the election I imagine, if many of the proposed tax increases that Biden has talked about are put into effect in a Harris Administration.
   
   I know I have to sell the house we are living in if Harris wins, their planned taxation to be levied when selling your property in the future will KILL the ability to purchase homes... so I need to sell and then purchase in a more preferable retirement location within a year of her being elected before they can implement that.  Roll those profits into a home with no mortgage at all.
   
   If you don't have a mortgage you don't need to have a insurance plan that costs 10k a year to cover it that a bank will demand.  Then you can put the property in a Trust so that the government can't easily strip it from you.

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      GA Andersonposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

      Always looking ahead, I see.
      
      GA  ;-)
      
      GA

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         Ken Burgessposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

         Yup already planted the idea in the wife's head.   I have been working that angle ever since we got hit with Insurance Companies dropping coverage in Florida south of the Pan Handle... making insuring a home a growing expense and a concern for the future.
         
         I definitely expect their new taxation to be more severe than currently proposed... in order to bail themselves out of their incessant spending sprees (fleecing of America) I think they will target anyone making a profit from the sale of their home, over say, 100k in gains.

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      tsmogposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

      I thought all of Florida was a retirement area, said with jest. On an aside, the problem here in my neck of the woods (California) for home insurance is they are both raising them and canceling policies because of location relevance to areas prone to wildfires.

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   Venkatachari Mposted 4 weeks ago

   I enjoyed browsing through this discussion. It has good humor and scary projections of futuristic politics.

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