IRS Employees to Get Bonuses

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 9 Feb 2014 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

The IRS will pay out over $40 million in employee performance bonuses for the year 2013. Commissioner John Koskinen explained that “the bonuses are necessary if we want to attract the kind of people we need at the agency.”

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called the bonuses “outrageous. Given the fact that the IRS was shown to be targeting conservatives for discriminatory treatment these bonuses send the wrong message.”

The National Treasury Employees Union took issue with Hatch’s view saying that “none of these employees should be punished for faithfully following orders. Senator Hatch’s grievance is with the President and his direct appointees, not the rank-and-file who merely carried out directives received from above.”

Commissioner Koskinen agreed saying that “rather than try to take his ‘pound of flesh’ from these loyal low-level bureaucrats, the Senator, if he has objections that he thinks warrant penalties, should aim them at his real target. If he thinks he has a case he should draft articles of impeachment against the President. The misuse of authority he alleges would appear to be an ‘impeachable offense’ as I understand the term.”

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[rktman]

Whew! At least now I have an explanation as to why I gotta pay some extra money to the irs again this year. Where the heck is my bonus? Oh, I get it. They’re gonna bone us.

[mikey_hates_everything]

"Senator Hatch’s grievance is with the President and his direct appointees, not the rank-and-file who merely carried out directives received from above.”

So the union knows and admits to it? Call them into the hearings.

[Lumper20]

The damn AFGE /IRS union get bonuses while the military and Vets get ZIP. This damn country has gone to hell with union teachers, union government workers, the TSA is union, and we recall the damn air traffic controllers under Reagan.

I was in the VA hospital last weekend with an angiogram set for Monday after two strange EKG’s Everything was fine, but; the nurses, staff, and all were living higher with less pressure/work then Vanderbilt.

[BitWielder1]

... none of these employees should be punished for faithfully following orders.

I thought no one identifiable gave such orders or instructions, ever.
It's obviously biased targeting of conservative groups just happened, by itself, for no known reason.