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The Lessons from IRS Horror Stories

I have found the A&E documentary IRS Horror Stories to be a great teaching tool for my classes. It outlines some outrageous cases of IRS abuse of power and examines the culture within the IRS that creates such abuses.

I showed this video to my group of students who are our "practicing entrepreneurs" (they all own/operate entrepreneurial businesses while pursuing their degrees here at Belmont). I find the discussions after the video to be enlightening. Students want to know what they can do. They are angry, overwhelmed, frustrated and afraid. They also offer some of their own stories, particularly from family businesses.

I tell them that the best that they can do is to be active citizens and make sure that their financial matters are in order in their businesses. As our entrepreneurial culture grows in America, their outrage gives me hope that some day we can restore in this country a simple and fair source of revenue generation for the common good.


Posted by Jeff Cornwall on April 14, 2005 06:15 AM |

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