Why Can’t Government Use Technology To Cut Its Payroll To Save More Of Our Money?”

The old joke goes: No ones life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. That may not seem so humorous now.

Did you know our legislature approved a tax on Bingo? Is nothing sacred any more?

It looks like the tax happy crowd at the Statehouse has put a tax on just about everything but the air we breathe.

According to our friendly state Department of Revenue, MyDORway is a free online tax portal where you can pay:

• Airline property taxes

• Bingo taxes

• Carline property taxes

• Coin operated device taxes

• Deed recording fees

• Electric power taxes

• Exempt property taxes

• Forest renewal fees

• Indigent health care taxes

• Motor fuel taxes.

It may not be long before they

come up with a way they can

charge taxes on taxes.

You can bet all of these taxes

will be passed on to you know who. And they are above what you pay in income, sales and personal property taxes on your home, car, truck and boat.

If it appears these are ways for government to get its greedy little hands into your pocket, you are right. And they are ways few of us even suspected.

The revenuers offer to let us pay these taxes online. My, my, what a convenience.

If you have an SCDOR tax account for any of these taxes, you will receive a letter in the coming weeks with information about accessing these accounts on MyDORway.

We can only imagine what creative ways the tax men will come up with using modern technology to make sure we pay every nickel and dime our legislature has passed into law.

Saul of Tarsus, a tax man himself before his Damascus Road experience, would be amazed at how far tax collection has come.

What we would like to see lawmakers do is to use technology to whittle down the size of government and its enormous payroll and benefits costs.

This might let us keep a little bit more of our money.

– JerryBellune@yahoo.com

Why can’t government use technology to cut its payroll to save more of our money?