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IRS Refunds for Slavery?

NOTPARSNOTPARS Member Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
I only caught the tail end of this on television, and maybe its already been addressed here, but, I'll ask again. Is there any truth to the story that a significant number of Black Americans filed IRS tax returns making up a category requesting a refund for slavery, or status of long deceased relatives, and then actually received the money? Tell me this can't be true.



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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Urban legend
    Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Yup, it's true. The story I heard was that some con man had a scam going where he convinced a lot of blacks around the country that such a "slavery refund" actually existed and for a two hundred dollar each fee he would help them apply. The unsuspecting (or claim to be unsuspecting) people then applied for the non-existant "slavery refund" on their 2000 tax filings. And believe it or not, the super vigilant, always efficient IRS clerks actually paid a bunch of these claims. Now the IRS is scrambling, trying to get the money back.

    I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you.

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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    "Urban Legend" hell, it's been all over the news for the past four or five days.

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  • GrandWizardGrandWizard Member Posts: 109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/4/13/132556
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,830 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just because it is "in the news" does NOT mean that it isn't an urban legend. Most good urban legends start out in the news anyway......

    I'm not convinced, personally. Ever try to get money out of the IRS? Doesn't happen easily, ESPECIALLY $43,000!!!! (as quoted in that "news story")

    Merc

    (Tho.....I do have to admit that it makes me laugh seeing whitey get all upset...hehehe.....discrimination is a *, ain't it?)



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  • GrandWizardGrandWizard Member Posts: 109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    (Tho.....I do have to admit that it makes me laugh seeing whitey get all upset...hehehe.....discrimination is a *, ain't it?)

    Whitey ???? what kind of comment is that suppose to be ?? Nevermind I know...


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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Mercury,

    Go crawl back into YOUR hole...



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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As usual Lowrider got it right. Not urban Legend. The IRS sent out over $600,000 on this scam.
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, thats what I get for watching the science channel instead of CNN
    The legand part is that their is a refund / credit due
    The sad part is that their are idiots that fall for the scam
    Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    The reports also say that a number of those getting the refund where employees or former employees of the IRS
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    According to Fox News, the IRS paid out $30 MILLION!
    http://search.foxnews.com/cgi-bin/query?pos=2&keys=taxes

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  • turboturbo Member Posts: 820 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm still wondering about the guy (Irvin Schiff) that Hannity & Colmes had on the program last night.

    He hadn't paid personal income taxes since 1973, according to him, seems he owns a corporation, draws a salary.

    They kept interrupting him so much he never stated his point.

    Anyhow I wish they would have let the man speak.

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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,830 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rossitti from the IRS verified that they did indeed pay out over $30 million.......sigh.

    The GOOD THING is that they could have possibly paid out over $2 BILLION, but caught that in time. So less than 1% is pretty decent, imo.

    He also said that the IRS employees had nothing to do with it.

    This "reparations" crap is a sham, unless you are a living slave!

    Oh......the "Whitey" thing is what I call poor white trash......always have, always will. I love how they complain they can't get a job because of the "(insert whatever minority here)" yet don't have any education, skills, training, OR motivation to get skills! I can't tell you how many times I've heard some hill-billy complain......yet doesn't do anything about it. (Covers a LOT of my family!) Heheheh.....

    Merc (who is white, usually)

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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i am a living slave for the irs.
    when do i get my reparations?
    fat damn chance.
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • NOTPARSNOTPARS Member Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gentlemen,

    Thanks, I guess I have my work cut out for me running this down. It may have been all over the news but they didn't seem to make that big of deal about it (liberal bias?). Anyway, I wasn't trying to start an argument, I wanted to verify this story before I passed it on. I'll check with NewsMax (stay away from their culture and society forum if you are anywhere near a conservative...and heterosexual...).
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  • NOTPARSNOTPARS Member Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Turbo,

    Are you still on the NewsMax forum? I got tired of all the leftist "sock puppets" and bailed. I might go back in May for a sneak attack. The Leftist and homosexual trolls followed me everywhere I went to mess with my posts and it got old. But I may sneak up on them in a couple of weeks. I just have to think of the right topic...hmmmmmmmmm.


    "Hitler was a socialist..."


    P.S. If I posted the above statement, they would go nuts.
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  • NOTPARSNOTPARS Member Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, I just checked the NewsMax forum as advised, and yep, the story is there and it even comes from the Washington Post with names and interviews. Looks as if this has been going on for 2 years. However, no mention was made of efforts to get OUR money back!
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NOTPARS-Actually, Hitler was a Fascist. World of diffference!ut
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hedog: Hitler was a National Socalist, Mussolini was a Fascist.
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,830 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NOTPARS,
    Rossitti (the IRS Commissioner) said they WERE going after the $30 million that had been given away.......

    Merc



    NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!

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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gruntled, I conceed, you are quite correct that the political party name was National Socialist. What that party espoused was fascism. If it walks like a duck...
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Anybody remember Mercury Morris????

    .218
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  • stanmanstanman Member Posts: 3,052
    edited November -1
    Yah!! And who was the big fullback that he ran behind?? Czonka??
    Do I have that right, or does my memory ? ? ? ? What were we talking about??
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