<< I heard a story last week on the radio that the IRS audits earned income at a much higher rate than unearned income. Us working slobs make easier targets. That's much more upsetting to me than the slavery thing. >>
This is because Congress told them to. Some Congresspeople were afraid of fraud in the Earned Income Credit program and instructed the IRS to increase its supervision of that program. I'm not defending the IRS here, particularly, just trying to place the blame where it really belongs. Tom Beck Well, they were more than "afraid." If I recall correctly, studies showed that some astonishing proportion of EITC claims were fraudulent - over a third, I believe. Gautam
