Kansas Suspends Income Tax Refunds - Page 2

[mightymoo]

Originally Posted by JTA Mom

Yea, but I seriously doubt that the reason for budgetary problems in tax refunds. Not to mention the state should technically NOT be touching that money since it doesn't belong to them. It's just easier to push off debt repayments for now. Personally I'd like to see both Kansas & California's elected officials taking a hold on all paychecks until the budget is balanced rather than holding people's money. It's their job to do this, they haven't, so they shouldn't get paid until they do.

Ami

Oh, I'm not trying to justify the state's actions, just that they can't not collect the owed taxes, because that's their only hope for paying out owed refunds I would imagine.

[Ola_]

Originally Posted by JTA Mom

That money is long gone, Ola. Spent away somewhere. And yes, of course they are still collecting money from those who owe them--I mean, those people don't get to not pay them back, that wouldn't be fair, would it?:

Ami

It's crazy though. If a person takes out a loan and can't pay it back, the bank won't just say "well, just give us an IOU". They don't care if you spent it on something frivolous or really what you spent it on at all. I mean you can sometimes (rarely) get help if you prove to them that you're in real hardship, but it's not easy to do that from what I hear.

You can't trust the banks, or the state now either. It's just yucky. And I'm not even in the US, I can only imagine how upset you guys are about this!