Buried in the farm bill was one sentence that lifted the 10-year statue of limitations on the collection of debts owed to Uncle Sam. No one will take responsibility for adding this one sentence, but congressional staffers say it was likely added at the request of the bureaucracy. Now that's the way to take responsibility!
Why should you care about this? Because this year alone, without any notice to the taxpayers Uncle Sam has seized $1.9 billion in tax refunds for old debts sometimes owed by the taxpayers' parents. That's right, hundreds of thousands of people like you and I did not receive their state and federal refund checks, but instead were left holding letters saying their refunds were confiscated to settle sometimes decades old debt. 400,000 more people will be sued this year