Posted on 12/29/2014 12:02:51 PM PST by Kaslin
The favorite government agency of statists, liberals, and progressives is worried that it might not have enough funding to adequately separate Americans from their hard earned money. The IRS commissioner John Koskinen complained to congress that the agency may not have budgeted enough next year to effectively carry out its duties. According to the AP:
Budget cuts at the IRS could delay tax refunds, reduce taxpayer services and hurt enforcement efforts, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Thursday.
Apparently 11 billion dollars just won’t cut it for the Federal Revenuers. In addition to needing billions of dollars to pay pensions, target conservative non-profits, and purchase almost $100 million worth of office furniture, the agency is arguing it needs a couple billion more to do its actual job. Koskinen is terribly worried that all us commoners won’t be able to receive our refunds in a timely manner. (You know what a refund is, right? It’s all that money you overpaid to the IRS, which they kept all year long without paying you interest… Yeah, he’s worried you won’t get that back on time.)
"Everybody's return will get processed," Koskinen told reporters. "But people have gotten very used to being able to file their return and quickly getting a refund. This year we may not have the resources, the people to provide refunds as quickly as we have in the past." In recent years, the IRS says it was able to issue most tax refunds within 21 days, if the returns were filed electronically.
Whoa… Twenty one days! Holy cow! We should slow things down a bit. I mean, we don’t want the general public expecting the type of efficiency generally associated with newfangled technology, like steam engine mail delivery or anything.
Seriously? Twenty one days? Can I take that long to file my return? Ya know, because of “budget cuts” within the Schaus household (due primarily to an absence of household quantitative easing efforts), I just don’t know that I’ll be able to process my return by the 15th of April. I’m sure you understand, right Koskinen?
Of course, we really wouldn’t need so much revenue, in order to fund the revenuers, if we didn’t have 74,000 pages of tax code to flip through every April. The notion that it takes over $11 billion to simply separate us from our hard earned cash is almost absurd. Especially when you consider the fact that the agency is notoriously ineffective at answering questions about the very rules they expect us to obey. Have you ever tried to call the IRS? It makes the DMV look like a model of innovation and efficiency.
Oh, and by the way, the government is not exactly short on cash nowadays. The IRS has been collecting record amounts of revenue for years (which is more than we can say for the average middle-class taxpayer). Of course the government has been spending this cash faster than the Revenuers can collect it, and we’re still managing to run historically embarrassing deficits each quarter.
It almost seems like we have a slight problem with government spending… Maybe the IRS could use a little haircut. They’ve been doing a fine job collecting people’s hard earned money despite a slight reduction in budget growth, and they’ve even found extra money to spend on things like ineffective email destruction services. Heck, maybe we can just reform the system a little, and keep those poor souls in the IRS from having to process hundreds of millions of 1040s… I bet the flat tax, fair tax, or even just a general reduction in current tax laws would help the IRS stay under budget. (Am I not helpful?)
In short, Koskinen is threatening to delay your return if he doesn’t get a little more money to grow the department. His budget woes, however, are merely a symptom of an over-burdened Federal government intent on expanding its footprint in our daily lives. And if the mere concept of reducing the tax code (and thereby the compliance, operational, and executive costs of the IRS) is too much for a statist like Koskinen to embrace, then perhaps we can come up with a backup plan…
For example, they could audit a handful of actual tax dodgers rather than harassing the President’s political opponents.
A version of the Christmas Story EXCEPT!......
The Givernment is GOD... tax collectors are Apostles from Christians turned into tax collectors..
Bram Stokers Christmas Story.. could be a novel..
be funny ((( IF ))) it wasn’t TRUE.......
Let's say a board of five with names nominated by the various state governors drawn on a random or rotating basis.
It’s like being raped, then billed for the lubricant.
And this idiocracy voted for hope and change not once but TWICE!
With the cutback in funds to carry out administrative “duties”, perhaps the enforcement of the provisions of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” could be dispensed with.
Just as an economy measure, you understand.
Psssssst. IRS ... While you are going over Lois's emails, check and see if she mentioned anything about Al Sharpton, at least once.
It is a moral imperative to pay as little as legally possible in taxes,
since the gov’t in general uses those resources to diminish our freedom.
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
You consent to the tax system every year you file a tax return. This is not "their" fault. This is "our" fault. Same with the 2nd Amendment - we CONSENT to the destruction of the 2A every single time we walk into a gun store and submit (like good little subjects) to a background check or when we ask permission (like good little subjects) to carry a concealed firearm.
Make no mistake - the destruction of America falls directly on our shoulders, because we do nothing, and continue to consent to the destruction.
The IRS Needs More of Your Money So They Can Tax More of Your Money
Socialist’s GESTAPO
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
DEPOPULATE ‘Rats/progressives/socialists/criminals/deceivers/RINOS/totalitarians/scumbags/etc., etc. from the body politic.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE their collectives/agencies, foreign and domestic.
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