Drowning in bureaucracy – U.S. has more tax preparers than all police, firefighters combined

Tuesday, August 21, 2012
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

When the bureaucracy of the Leviathan has grown so large that it needs more people to function than there are local and state-level public servants, it’s well past time to take account of how large we have allowed our government to become. And by that way, that rumbling sound you hear is our founding fathers rolling over in their graves and, most likely, looking for some tea to chuck into a harbor somewhere.

According to FaceTheFactsUSA.org, a non-partisan organization supported by George Washington University (insert founding father connection here) that essentially tracks and reports on the size and growth rate of the Leviathan, there are 1.2 million professional tax preparers in the U.S., to navigate the “labyrinth,” complex and cumbersome tax code – a figure that surpasses the number of police officers (765,000) and firefighters (310,400) combined.

The complexity of the U.S. tax code has grown immensely just in the past decade alone, the group says, and that’s due in large part to what can only be described as the politicization of it – politicians wanting to use it to win favor with constituents (and on that note, it’s appropriate here to point out that 49 percent of Americans pay no federal income taxes at all, according to the respected, bi-partisan Senate Joint Committee on Taxation, but more on this later).

The tax code just keeps on growing

The Rest…HERE

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