cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2020 2:09 pm
The last interaction my wife and I had with the US Government came at the hands of a little organization called the IRS. The lovely folks at the IRS screwed up when my wife rolled over her 401 K plan into another fund. The folks at the IRS were convinced it was a disbursement of funds and we owed them 5000 plus dollars plus interest and penalties.. Getting this issued resolved was beyond a nightmare. The solution was very strait forward, our accountant had all the right forms everything on our end was 100% in order. The guy who worked for our accountant spent hours on the phone getting this fixed. In the end my wife and I were still out over 300 dollars the government shorted us not to include what we had to pay our accountant. There is nothing easy or simple or straightforward when you deal with the IRS. The last time I checked the IRS is bigly a part of the US government. They most certainly are not taxpayer friendly, not even when they are the folks who screwed up to begin with.
To be clear: I'm not saying that there aren't problems/issues/ with the government.
I'm saying that I deal with that kind of time-wasting, and expensive, nonsense with the private sector all the time. Every week.
Mis-billings. Shipping the wrong thing. Bad customer service. Liars. Cheats. Scoundrels....the whole spectrum.
I'm simply saying, this isn't unique to government. Heck, don't most lacrosse fans have frustrating Comcast stories?