How can Americans become more aware of their failing tax system and methods of reforming it?
441611
First you have to eliminate the so-called Earned Income Credit, which is just a yearly jackpot for losers who want to live off the system - make them pay a fair share, next, you have to circumvent the influence of groups such as foreign investors, tax prep. companies, and American businesses, all winners in the tax game. Finally, there is the huge beauracracy of the IRS, which certainly does not want to become obsolete by instituting a clear and fair tax code.  Good Luck!
682472
I'm sorry, you have to be long-standing friends with the administration to be able to bilk tax-payers.  It's not just anyone on Yahoo Answers that can do it.  And to the first question, yes, they will.\nDo you ever have sinking disappointment in our government?  I mean, are we really back to tea-pot dome days?  And why aren't more people outraged?  I just don't understand.  I think that blind loyalty to our party system is really undermining government.
115861
First, you need some fresh ideas as to how the government should function. Second, you need a ton of cash. Third, you need to get the word out to the voting public (see second point). Fourth pray that it will only take a decade or so before you finally get someone elected to office.
202142
Eliminate corruption and politicians. Put taxes to legitimate use.  It's a simple formula but i think it will work.
593499
Call them and ask for it.  Or pull your old tax returns.
899832
Good luck with this.\nContinue to attempt contact, and go to the better business bureau website if you have no success to log a complaint and see if they can help you.\n\nAnd please ... while many americans make good livings, and some are "rich"; a good deal more of us live on a very limited budget and have little discretionery income, and understand what you are talking about as far as money.
790995
I think we'll need a lot more information than that. If they have underpaid you and it is their fault then they must cough it up. If it is due to an error that you put on the form then they will not pay up. \n\nUnfortunately, the tax credit system is appalling and nearly everyone I know has been búggered by it. We filled our form in merticulously and the mistakes they made beggared belief.
249168
HOMELAND SECURITY and FIMA.You could write a book on the inadequacies of that outfit.History will reveal how government responded to it's greatest natural disaster.This could be be a tale of "too little too late",waste and graft, indifference and incompetence at the highest levels of government.
190566
Holbright you and i are on the same page mostly  I believe, However the the biggest security risk that the majority of American families face in the past and currently is financial security! Different branches of government currently produce official documentation with their conclusion of the 2005 federal budget, none of them are numerically consistent and are highly suspect as to being cooked! This we do know for certain congress authorizes the production via U.S. Treasury and their is no shortage of paper and ink! The Bush administration borrowing from other country's is likely outrageous and irresponsible! Why not reform capitalism and grant open equal access instead of the establish structure in place!Sure there would have to be some rule applied to like stopping immigration,maybe price index freezing for awhile and you would not hand money to those whom lack the mental ability to utilize properly,but their welfare should be respectfully honored!Are you in favor of letting our legal citizen's control capitalism instead of the current structure?
57032
Have you tried contacting your Senetor, or Congressmen?  How about the IRS?  They don't really like it when they get phone calls, or letters a million times a week because of some loser that won't pay for his child.  I was lucky and my Senetor got involved rather fast.  He was happy to help and it was free.
429333
Ronald Reagan once said the the scariest words you could ever hear was somebody from the government saying "I'm here to help!"\nThe Federal Government is inefficient, ineffective, beauracracy that taxes the working class to support programs for those who don't work, don't want to work, utilize the emergency room as their primary means of health care, make babies they can't reasonably support, and then get nice tax returns for their three kids with 3 different daddys when they paid nothing INTO the system and are just a drain on it.  IF YOU PAY NOTHING IN,YOU SHOULD GET NOTHING BACK!  Shaquanda shouldn't be rewarded for careless behavior. When a tax return goes for a new set of gold rims, there is a problem!\nGovernment should be run more like a corporation that returns dividends to its stockholders (The American Taxpayer).  It is not the place of government to support people.
1017530
I am a small business owner. I never got any tax refund. My taxes are now so complicated that I could never do them myself.\n\nAlso, I depend on industry in the US for my business. Since W has taken office I would guess well over 50% of my clients have closed their doors and moved their operations to China.\n\nMy phones are being tapped.\nMy country is feared around the world. \nWe are the laughingstock of so called "democratic" countrys\nMany more reasons that make this country less democratic and more fascist.\nThe internet is about to be taken over by big communications firms and they will sell bandwidth to the highest bidder.
331535
1). Keep own money -- Some people do not like higher taxes because they do not want to part with their money.\n\n2). Bad appropriation -- Some people do not like higher taxes because they disagree on what their tax money pays for.\n\n3). Small government -- Some people do not like higher taxes since they believe that the government should play a minimal role in our lives, thus, it does not need all that money to operate under such a minimal role.\n\n4). Bloat -- Some people think that the tax money is wasted in government bloat, thus higher taxes would just be more bloat.
205110
Thank you! I have been trying to make this same point! They cannot apply for tax returns so they lose all that money! Where do most of the people on this website get their info from?
1026966
very.  to fix is you need to redefine a nation's priorities.  change from what i want (something to entertain me) to what they need (the need for basic items to live).  interesting question to pose to the most selfish and self obsesed people in the world.  (not every american is like that, but i think as a nation we are).
812438
We need fair tax.  I feel that sales tax is the best way. Barring that a simple income tax without deductions. We spend more on tax enforcement each year than education. If you added in the cost of incarceration of tax offenders then you would find we could send millions of Americans to college for free with what we waste on the IRS and tax enforcement. \n\nEach American wastes money and time with taxes. All the while hoping they did it right. Even if they did there is risk of an audit and even if they made their best effort to comply with the law and were completely honest there is a risk they could face huge fines or worse for honest mistakes.   So it saps our productivity and leaches money from the economy for parasites like tax lawyers. \n\nLast we pay through the nose at the check out counter. The legions of accountants and tax lawyers needed by companies just to deal with the IRS nightmare costs each of us every time we buy anything. \n\nAs for the poor, they'll pay less tax really. The middle class considerably less. The rich more and many companies and people who skate tax free will have to pay their share. Billions will be availible to reduce the defficiet, fund tax cuts or be used for other needs.
795536
More than any self-respecting, hard-working (non-elected politician), North American taxpayer would allow, or be pleased to know. . .\nDo YOU have an actual 'figure'???\nIf so - please include in your details of this question?\nThanx -\n\nPS - I truly DO appreciate you 'doing more research' and including the anstronomical figures in your details . . . that's some awesome numbers that you have reported . . . and we the people are powerless to stem the flow!!! as we continue to allow those dollars to be 'taxed' away from our grocery money!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ---- can we all say?\n"I'm so proud to be an American"