"IOW, what does "The IRS goes after YOU" mean materially?"

You get a letter explaining what happened, and a bill.

99% of the time the IRS doesn't GAF about you if you pay the bill.

Is this her?

On Twitter (X), on April 14, 2026, Haley Stevens posted a critique of Republican Mike Rogers, calling him "the worst kind of politician...". In the post, she attacked him for:
-Getting rich off his position of power
-Helping kick off the opioid crisis
-Letting Big Pharma rip off Michiganders
- Demanding more tax cuts

"Money is not speech."

How about we distinguish between Free Speech and Paid Speech?

"you're free to post examples of rank and file employees being locked up or fined when their employer failed to remit payroll taxes"

Who said anything about locked up or fined?!?

"you misspelled "obfuscate"."

What a riot.

You missed the salient difference, and it's MY fault.

" the IRS pursues employees when their employer fails to remit payroll taxes?"

Yes.

By law, the ultimate responsibility for "the employer's half" of payroll taxes is the employee.

" You're gonna make that distinction now? Not the 9,000 times you insisted they were income taxes"

You've completely missed the point. When no distinction is made between taxes and income taxes, I correct.

The headline made the distinction.

I merely pointed out the corporations are covering that amount, that it's ultimately is part of the worker's compensation ... a bit like the company covering health insurance. But legally ... if, say, your company got shut down Dec 31 for not paying any payroll taxes on your behalf ... the IRS would go after them first, and you for any remaining balance.

The ultimate legal responsibility is with YOU. That's why the IRS literally recommends you ask for proof from your employer every quarter. (As if that happens.)

""I am deeply troubled by what has happened in this case," Faruqui said. "What has transpired here can't be described as anything other than weaponization.""

No doubt Bellringer will be creating a thread, and SCREECHING against this obvious weaponization.

"Social Security taxes ARE federal income taxes.""

No, they're federal PAYROLL taxes. HUGE difference.

"Employers pay payroll taxes, regardless of their legal structure"

But they're not the ones ultimately responsible. If THEY don't pay, or can't pay, the IRS goes after YOU.

"Goddamit, for the 9,000th time, Social Security taxes ARE federal income taxes."

Except we're talking about Corporations.

Corporations don't pay payroll taxes. YOU THE WORKER are the one ultimately responsible, and YOU THE WORKER are the ones paying them.

Wow.

Those bruises on his hands have gotten worse!

"America's next war could reach US soil"

Only if due to a series of massive failures.

"...imagine you think you're saving democracy by breaking the law and misleading"

The O'Keefe discussion is on another thread...

"It doesn't (prove LHT's claim).

Color me stunned.

"Easy, but not relevant."

Huh?

It's relevant if he wants to confirm his claim.

It's also relevant if he chooses not to: it proves he doesn't really have it.

But you're right about the first part: it's easy.

" It's available through Snopes and I've posted it here several times."

So posting the full context, including the rest of the paragraph, should be easy.

Post or link away.

"Lawyers should be held to higher standards than the rest of us."

Agreed. The idea that Clearance Thomas could be gifted an RV, and not have to report it, staggers the imagination.

Clearance's explanation: he had other lawyers confirm he didn't really have to report it.

Of course, if that had actually happened, the lawyers who advised him would've come forward.

The tax code requires me to ask every filer if they've bought or sold crypto in the year.

There's no follow up question on the return, but I always ask if the filer is up or down.

Over the years, all but ONE client has admitted they're down, and the one who said "up", quickly followed that with, "But I got out a long time ago".

I've concluded crypto is like playing online poker with five other people, with all of them in the same room somewhere, showing each other their hands.

" It's only one person. Statistically nonexistent."

That's true: had it worked, it would be no reason to suppress other voters.

But this stunt proved EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what the moron perpetrators were trying to "prove". If anything, this should make folks feel SAFER regarding their vote.

And just like any other election fraud, I believe they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Agree?

" ... this radical weirdo "

What a lying sack of schitttt.

" we are talking about Democrats doing what they do best, which is cheat at voting."

Odd, your home state can't seem to catch, arrest, and convict many at all.

If cheating is so rampant, why are convictions so rare?

" The government doesn't know if people are citizens or not? How is that even possible."

If there are two people with the same name in the household, and one is a citizen and one not, that's a "possible".

Let's not forget, these are the people who claimed there were over 15,000 people on the roles illegally in Nevada. When Nevada asked for proof, the number changed to 185.

And when Nevada looked at those 185 people, all of them were legal voters who cast legal votes. ALL OF THEM.

" ... gas prices ... are high right now due to this stupid Iran war but which was what Greenies wanted ... "

I'm curious: can you TASTE the idiocy when you post crap like that?

" With that, a one party tyranny with 1A criticisms being dubbed "hate speech"."

Are you lying about acts of domestic terrorism AGAIN?!?

"So, do we just ignore all of the stupid and crazy crap the GOP claims they are for because past attempts were narrowly thwarted or do we take politicians at their word?"

We take everything you say and remember with a ton of salt. You've "remembered" multiple things which never happened, and had tax-burdened acquaintances who turned out not to exist.

YOU'RE the one we don't take at his word.

"As a corollary, should this most august forum rely upon your memory in the future?"

Years back, JeffJ railed against the Cadillac Tax, saying a friend of his had to pay it.

The Cadillac Tax was never enacted.