To Alice Rivlin 12 28 95

Having seen you on the News Hour and having liked how you think and express yourself, as opposed to Senator Domenici’s joking and finger pointing, I am writing to you. Also, writing to him did no good, and, as a result of IRS abuse, my home, and the property that I was relying on taking care of me in my old age, appear to be going into foreclosure on January 4, 1996.

I say abuse only after careful consideration of what has happened to me in relation to IRS’s improper, to the point of corrupt, if corrupt means, degraded with unsound principles or moral values, handling of my tax accounts. Please consider this question: Is it not in the most basic terms, unsound for IRS to take all of someone’s money, while failing to correct evident errors in IRS records?If it is true that in a recent year 2.3 million Americans were levied by IRS, then isn’t it possible IRS abuse is a major factor in the growth of militias, and a significant factor in the destruction of the American family? When families lose their homes, and the businesses upon which they depended, I believe children in those homes tend to suffer abuse at the hands of their over-stressed parents, but in reality, are suffering that abuse at the hands of IRS. I believe that if it were studied, IRS abuse would be found to be a worse problem, in terms of health consequences, than is nicotine.

I put everything that I had into my work, not just money but hope and expectations. When IRS took all of my money last year, not leaving me enough to renew myreal estate license, buy car insurance, or pay my Realtor dues, I was put out of business. And this is after maxing out my credit early in the year in order to send IRS money. To which IRS responded that I should get a different job, one that would allow me to pay them regularly. I mean, I find that a horrifying thing for them to have the audacity to say. I deeply believe that it is wrong for IRS to take all of someone’s money, but worse, is the fact that IRS makes errors they refuse to correct, and at the same time punishes people to such extreme extents.

There was a time when I was in such extreme daily pain from sleep deprivation, resulting from IRS threats, that I considered immolating myself at an IRS office. From that time, I came to believe that IRS behavior which regularly results in this kind of pain, is in fact torture. And, I am in no way exaggerating. Now, since Don Boroughs called, I sleep five or more hours, and am no longer capable of such a dramatic, but painful, end.What I hope my action will achieve, is to focus attention on this prevalent form of abuse, so that other people may be saved from the pain I am experiencing. I hope that people begin to see that a form of tax like a National Retail Sales Tax would prevent this kind of needless destruction of people.