Am I the only one who is annoyed by those guys that have commercials on TV about helping you get out of your tax troubles? They sit there so stern-faced and say if you owe thousands of dollars in back taxes come see us and we will help you only pay pennies on the dollar. They seem to assume that they are somehow contributing to the public good by providing this service. In reality they are probably taking a pretty good percentage of the money legally owed in taxes.
All of us have a duty to pay our fair share of taxes to keep our government running.
- We pay taxes for police and fire protection.
- We pay taxes to ensure safe food or water.
- We pay taxes for safe highways.
- We pay our taxes so that when we are old and no longer earning an income there will be help for us.
- We pay taxes so that we can help out our neighbors when they fall on hard times.
- We pay taxes so that when we lose our jobs there will be a safety net under us.
- We pay taxes so that we can be protected from extremists and terrorists who want to do us harm.
When some among us shirk their duty to maintain our government then the rest of us have to dig deeper to cover their shortfall. So when a guy primarily motivated by greed gets on TV and boasts about helping tax dodgers get away without paying their share for all of the above it definitely gets my ire up! It is a shame that there is enough selfishness and greed around to keep them on TV.
But what do I know…
RJ's Corner 
Yeah, I kind of put them in the category of fodder for liability lawyers, as in, “Can you get me big bucks if I stubbed my toe on my neighbor’s doorstep?”
It does seem that greed and evasion of responsibility is way too common among us. Which brings us to the waves of entitlement attitudes.
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Banjo, I can agree with you to a point (as I usually do) but I think these tax evader guys are worse than the liability lawyers. At least the lawyers do occasionally represent someone who has really been grievously harmed. I don’t see anyone trying to get out of paying their share of taxes in that category.
As to entitlements, yes there are some who game the system and think we owe them but there are also many others who are in real need for a hand up once in a while. I am not one to throw them out with the bath water so to speak.
I have a friend who is unfortunate enough to only be able to get minimum wage jobs with no benefits. He is now fighting cancer and the corresponding family killing bills without any insurance. He has worked hard all his life. And then there are some who I see weekly at the soup kitchen where I volunteer. They are definitely not the free loaders that some seem to label them.
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