Imagine you can deduct on your federal income taxes a set cost per mile for traveling back and forth to where you VOLUNTEER to go, to represent your town/city at the state house.
AND you are allowed that deduction every day that entity is in session EVEN of you do not actually make the trip!!!
This scam has been in place since 1988 FWIW. The IRS would
normally call that fraud wouldn't it? But not for our state reps. Now I know why raising taxes don't seem like a bad idea....they don't pay any in most instances!
It is just another instance of the systematic rape of the American taxpayer. The wealthy contol who gets elected and the elected get to enjoy the spoils along with those that get them elected. I can understand why more people than ever want to work 'off the books'. Tax payers are being picked clean.