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RUSH: This is Luanne in Jacksonville, Florida. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. How are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Hey. I\u2019d like to make a comment that you made earlier on the ACORN tax preparers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER. You know what, you are exactly right and I hope everybody out there realizes that the upper class of people do pay the majority of taxes, and those rarely cheat on their taxes. I am a certified tax preparer — and not that I am a fan of the IRS, but had I been able to bust these people, I sure would have. I saw daily people coming in and actually sharing children where they didn\u2019t even have the child\u2019s Social Security number. They had them written on paper napkins, backs of envelopes, didn\u2019t know the child\u2019s middle name.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second here! You are confirming that it is the poor who are the tax cheats in this country. The poor and the middle class, not the rich. While all the ACORN babes… Look, everybody thinks it\u2019s the rich who are the tax cheats, that have all the lawyers and people to advise them how to cheat. You don\u2019t advise them how to cheat. You just know the law and you tell them how to file taxes according to the law to limit what they pay but the ACORN babes are helping people cheat on their taxes, and we always thought it was the rich doing this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, let me tell you. And me personally in the offices that I have worked in, we are not allowed by law to tell them anything or tell them that they are breaking the law. We have to say, ‘You might be audited by the IRS now.\u2019 Of course what I have done is I haven\u2019t. Just as times I haven\u2019t even touched —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. Why can\u2019t you tell them they\u2019re breaking the law?<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re not allowed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By whom?<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re not allowed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who doesn\u2019t allow you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: By the companies that we have worked for. We\u2019re not allowed to say that. We are not lawyers. We\u2019re not allowed to portray the law to them. We can advise them that: ‘Are you sure this is what you want to do?\u2019 and in the notes on their tax returns.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What, is your company afraid of offending them or something? What is this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Most of them are. Most of them, yes. Absolutely they are. Apparently social services, HRS, welfare department, they do not communicate with the IRS because here\u2019s one example. I had a gentleman that came in, he had a Social Security number written on the corner of an envelope. He didn\u2019t even know this child\u2019s middle name which we have to have, that or the middle initial. He was on the phone making phone calls, making sure the Social Security number was right. Now, what we found out is the person, these people… Let\u2019s say you have a lower income single mom who has three children. Now, if she collecting welfare —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I gotta stop you because I have an obscene profit break here, but hold your thought there. I want to hear the end of this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We want to go back to Luanne in Jacksonville, Florida. All right, so the guy came in, he\u2019s got the Social Security number on the corner of an envelope; he doesn\u2019t know the name of the kid.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct. Making phone calls, you know, trying to find out the correct information on the child. And of course by that time you know that this isn\u2019t a child. Of course it turns out to be his niece who moved in with him the last few months of the year. And by law, if a child or someone has lived with you the last six months of the year you can claim them for the full year, and what these people do is, like I was saying before, you have this single parent who has a couple of children who let\u2019s say is on welfare, food stamps, and they don\u2019t have per se an income from anybody, they\u2019ll give a child basically to somebody they know to collect taxes, you know, a tax refund as they call it, which it\u2019s hard for me to say because you can\u2019t have a refund if you don\u2019t give, right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am sitting here, I\u2019m heartbroken, stunned and shocked.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s horrible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: America\u2019s poor are gaming and cheating the IRS. America\u2019s poor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Look at me, there are thousands and thousands of dollars that me personally saw go out, thousands and thousands to people who don\u2019t get it. I talked to my kids telling them what I was seeing, they would say, ‘Yeah, mom, we see it all the time, we hear it all the time,\u2019 people so-and-so over in this part, given this — where they would give — let\u2019s say if I was a parent, what they would do is if Joe Schmo received an extra $1,500 in taxes, Joe Schmo would then split it with the person whose child it really belonged to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Shocking, absolutely shocking, my friends.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s horrific, it\u2019s horrific, and I don\u2019t know whether to go back and continue. I\u2019m what you call a rule follower and I am following the rules and it\u2019s not by responsibility by law —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You only have one choice and that\u2019s to send these people over to ACORN. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sure there\u2019s an ACORN office in Jacksonville. You don\u2019t want any part of this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It happens all the time. If there\u2019s a hundred people that come in the office I guarantee you 25 of them are tax cheats, 25 of them, and they\u2019re not the upper middle and upper class. When I get the upper middle in, they have everything laid out, every insurance policy, everything they\u2019ve ever done they\u2019ve got a folder full of paperwork.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How much do you charge these people for assisting them?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and that\u2019s it. It goes by a percentage of what their refund is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, my God, so you\u2019re a coconspirator.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not me. I pass \u2019em off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, but the company is. If the company won\u2019t let you tell these people they\u2019re cheating and you go ahead and file a return, you\u2019re a coconspirator, unindicted —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Man.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not me, the company is. I can\u2019t do it. I told them I can\u2019t do this. I\u2019ll give them to somebody else or I refer them to somebody else. And most people when you see that they\u2019re doing it, they won\u2019t handle it, either. It\u2019s horrible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, back in 1989 or \u201990, I did a poignant commentary on how we need to raise taxes on the poor. We need to raise taxes on the poor. Little did I know how poignant that was, and that\u2019s 20 years ago. Thank you, Luanne, I appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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