Tax, tax, tax the night
Tax, tax, tax the night away
Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan D.A., tells us how important it is that everyone pay taxes, lest they pay even more.
Public officials — both those who oppose new taxes and those who believe new taxes are necessary in hard budgetary times — should favor a fair deal for all taxpayers. To make that a reality, tax departments, prosecutors and other law enforcement agencies must step up their efforts against significant cases of fraud and evasion; these offices must, in turn, be afforded adequate resources to do the job.
If we are vigilant and resourceful, we can make the same gains against tax fraud that we have made against homicides and other street crime in the past decade. We might even help keep tax rates from rising out of sight.
A nice little hustle.