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The IRS will pay Equifax $7.25 million to verify taxpayer identities and help prevent fraud under a no-bid contract issued last week, even as lawmakers lash the embattled company about a massive security breach that exposed personal information of as many as 145.5 million Americans.
A contract award for Equifax's data services was posted to the Federal Business Opportunities database Sept. 30 — the final day of the fiscal year. The credit agency will "verify taxpayer identity" and "assist in ongoing identity verification and validations" at the IRS, according to the award.
The notice describes the contract as a "sole source order," meaning Equifax is the only company deemed capable of providing the service. It says the order was issued to prevent a lapse in identity checks while officials resolve a dispute over a separate contract.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/equifax-irs-fraud-protection-contract-243419
(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 06 2017, @02:38AM (4 children)
Right, so you're wanting it to be getting back your money that you paid in... unless you're rich then it's everybody else's money. How do you look in a mirror and see anything but a blatant thief?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @04:26AM (3 children)
If you have a huge pile of money--and you actually EARNED that--then you got it using the public infrastructure: roads; bridges; waterways; water; sewers; rights of way for communications, the electricity grid, natural gas; etc.
You owe The System.
...especially if you're not even equitably sharing what your company took in with the workers who made that money for you--AKA consumers who would actually spend it into the actual economy.
...and I'd like to see the "Look, I did it all myself" bunch try their hand in Somalia and in a year's time report back on how they're doing.
OTOH, if you never actually PRODUCED anything in order to extract that money from the economy (you made money while you were sleeping), then you are simply another worthless Capitalist^W parasite.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 06 2017, @10:49AM (2 children)
You mean the public infrastructure that you paid taxes to create and use, thus owe nothing either fiscally or morally for?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @11:12AM (1 child)
Infrastructure requires maintenance.
...and a Capitalist that doesn't believe in growth and expansion and upgrades??
Sounds like some kind of commie.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 06 2017, @12:07PM
What's your point? You think moving things paid for from the past to the future somehow makes them magical? No. If you pay for something, your debt is gone. That's what "paying" means. No American who pays the taxes demanded of them owes jack shit to "society" or the government for public works.
I know you desperately want to find a moral way into the pockets of your betters but there isn't one aside from voluntary exchange of value for value. You want more than what you have? Create something of value to someone else and exchange for it. There is no other moral way to acquire wealth.
I don't even have an issue with the stated vision you have of privately created socialist concerns. They're voluntary. I don't think they work worth a shit compared to their capitalist counterparts but that's irrelevant so long as participation is voluntary. We have a very old word for those who are forced to work and see the fruits of their labor go to others: slavery.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.