another outrage

whitegp wrote:

The 2008 Farm Bill gave the Treasury Department permission to collect on debts more than 10 years old, and since 2011, it’s been doing so with gusto. This year, the Social Security Administration has found 400,000 taxpayers who, it says, collectively owe $714 million to the government for debts that have been lingering more than a decade.

So
The culprits include every congressman and senator that passed the 2008 Farm bill.
Every congress since but especially every congress since 2011 when it became clear that the SS admin was agressively chasing down these debts.
The heads of the SSA who could at any moment have gone to the speaker of the house and explained the problem(speaking very slowly of course). Since congress has been by any standard inactive they had a ripe opportunity to actually do something. Perhaps in that last Farm Bill?

Obama cannot contact the IRS by law. So the only relief from this fiasco needs to start with congress. The orange overlord Boener isn't doing anything perhaps he can help.

It is sad that not only does the country have to suffer from a congress that has done nothing to advance the country but that is too inept to fix screwups from the past.
Single digit approval rating, they have earned it.

Is it a screw up? When your appetite has already exceeded your means by 17 trillion every citizen starts to look like a windfall.

BlazerBob wrote: Is it a screw up? When your appetite has already exceeded your means by 17 trillion every citizen starts to look like a windfall.

Unless they're one of the obscenely-wealthy, hiding their money offshore--Then they get a free pass.

BlazerBob wrote:

whitegp wrote:

The 2008 Farm Bill gave the Treasury Department permission to collect on debts more than 10 years old, and since 2011, it’s been doing so with gusto. This year, the Social Security Administration has found 400,000 taxpayers who, it says, collectively owe $714 million to the government for debts that have been lingering more than a decade.

So
The culprits include every congressman and senator that passed the 2008 Farm bill.
Every congress since but especially every congress since 2011 when it became clear that the SS admin was agressively chasing down these debts.
The heads of the SSA who could at any moment have gone to the speaker of the house and explained the problem(speaking very slowly of course). Since congress has been by any standard inactive they had a ripe opportunity to actually do something. Perhaps in that last Farm Bill?

Obama cannot contact the IRS by law. So the only relief from this fiasco needs to start with congress. The orange overlord Boener isn't doing anything perhaps he can help.

It is sad that not only does the country have to suffer from a congress that has done nothing to advance the country but that is too inept to fix screwups from the past.
Single digit approval rating, they have earned it.

Is it a screw up? When your appetite has already exceeded your means by 17 trillion every citizen starts to look like a windfall.

Oh yeah BB, you are correct, follow the money. And Obama has had his Treasury dept. issue bulletins before affecting Obamacare exemptions/delays so not buying this idea he can't touch the IRS.

Can you see this unlimited debt collection expanding in the future? Obamacare subsidies overpayments due to incorrect future income estimates or household size updates? Medicaid estate recovery laws? Pay up suckers! LOL Enjoy!