As I sit here in disbelief reading about the OUTRAGE over the 165 Million in bonuses given to people that the taxpayers bailed out , I seem to recall the sound of crickets in the last 8 years over things like this:
A blast from the past met with the sound of crickets and the circular filing of sternly worded letters.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1.6 million U.S. businesses owe the
Internal Revenue Service more than $58 billion in unpaid taxes
for Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance, a government watchdog agency said on Tuesday.
In a report to the Senate Homeland Security investigations subcommittee, the Government Accountability Office said the IRS fails to take full advantage of tools available to collect unpaid taxes and to prevent further cheating on payroll taxes.
"When businesses do not remit payroll taxes, they are using employees' money to fund business operations or the personal lifestyle of the businesses' owners," GAO Director of Financial Management and Assurance Steven Sebastian said in testimony to the committee.[emphasis added]