Federal Employees Owe More Than $1 Billion In Taxes

American Voices

January 26, 2012 | ISSUE 48•04

According to the IRS, federal, postal, and congressional employees owe $1.03 billion in unpaid taxes. What do you think?

Interesting. I'll have to remember to be much ruder to my mailman next time I see him.

Danny Fry
Grip Boss
Are you still allowed to write a whole news story about a measly billion bucks?

Arthur Huth
Ceramic Restorer
That's horrible. Where ever did these employees of the United States government get the idea that it was acceptable to let their obligations amass into an incomprehensibly large sum and not do a thing to pay it off?

Beth Kosloff
Processing Supervisor

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