Remember the IRS computer crashes and the hunt for those long destroyed lost emails of Lois Lerner? Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas introduced a bill he called the “The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act,” to allow us all to try out some excuses. Rep. Stockman said, “Taxpayers should be allowed to offer the same flimsy, obviously made-up excuses the Obama administration uses.” The bill would allow taxpayers who do not provide documents requested by the IRS to claim one of the following reasons:
- The dog ate my tax receipts.
- Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction.
- Traded documents for five terrorists.
- Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon.
- Left on table in Hillary’s Book Room.
- Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy’s car.
- Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords.
- Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar.
- Was short on toilet paper while camping.
- At this point, what difference does it make?
Silly season in Congress....
