This sounds like such a bad idea

[unixronin]

CNET reports on a new initiative for the IRS to make better use of the Internet.  The following paragraph leaped out at me:

Complicating the situation is the Senate committee's unusual step of voting on a summary of the tax bill -- but not on the actual text, which has yet to be written.  That means the final wording of the legislation is still up in the air, even though it's awaiting a floor vote.

Granted, there's time for the final legislation to actually get drafted before it reaches the Senate floor.  Assuming the Senate reads it.  But it just seems to me like a really bad idea to have even a Senate subcommittee voting on a bill that hasn't actually been written yet.  It seems to me this opens up the possibility of the IRS having a pre-approved bill that they can then write whatever they want into.

And given the past track record of the IRS in harrassment and abuses, that's an unsettling idea.

Comments

[gdmusumeci.livejournal.com]

That sounds rather backwards. How can you vote on something if you don't know exactly what it will say? Then again, I think the entire legal code is really far too obfuscated for anyone's good.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

My point exactly ... and I agree about the legal code. It's time to pile it all up, burn it, and start over.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Time to move to Iceland and the Althing! :-)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

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