The Net Tax Gap is the amount owed in taxes that is not reported and will never be collected.

Note that $385 Billion is for just one year. That means in ten years if all the taxes owed were collected, we would gain almost $4 TRILLION in additional revenue. IN other words ------ NO DEFICIT!!!! (I'm shouting in an attempt to be heard by the M$M who largely remain mum about this).

http://www.irs.gov/pub/newsroom/overview_tax_gap_2006.pdf

... nearly all the tax evasion is pulled off by Corporations and wealthy individuals who have the money to pay tax specialists to find ways to not declare (legitimate or otherwise) and thus not pay taxes owed. Creating dummy business entities which have no apparent business reason for existing but exist just to avoid paying taxes is considered tax evasion by the IRS.

..recommended.

up the gap....

Corporations are not only paying off politicians, but have lots "O" lobbyists in place to remind them how to vote. AND if all that should somehow fail, most of the Congress comes from the business world anyways. The revolving door between business and government is especially noticeable in the MIC structure, but is rampant enough to be noticed everywhere. Energy, health care, pharmaceuticals...

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. Never has, never will."

Frederic Douglas

are demanding the rich do the same, and stop complaining about the debt..

"We shall see".

I hope you're right, but I have a sneaky suspicion it'll take more than some constituent "demands".