Posted on 08/28/2017 2:07:56 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Would you hire someone who had falsified documents or been convicted of theft? Probably not. But then again, you're not the IRS.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
FTA: Yes, according to an inspector general’s report, the agency in charge of collecting your tax dollars and safeguarding your private information has rehired 213 employees guilty not only of the offenses mentioned above, but also of dodging taxes and of making unauthorized use of taxpayer information. Not one or two, which would be bad enough. More than 200. Small wonder that lawmakers determined to clean up the agency have faced such an uphill battle.
Is the Inspector General sleeping?
“Is the Inspector General sleeping?”
The sad truth is that government bureaucracy has become much too big and autonomous to be effectively managed.
It is unlikely that they were “fired.” Probably they were “removed from position” until the heat dissipated.
The IG reports. The IG doesn't have line authority on who gets hired and fired. The IRS is just doing its usual of ignoring findings and recommendations.
Obama got and Hillary got around the IG problem by leaving the State Dept. IG position vacant for years.
No police and no crimes are found.
Abolish the IRS!!!
Yes, abolish the IRS
Funny, all we heard during the campaign was “drain the swamp”, yet the Commissioner John Koskinen, is still there. This bum was in charge during the IRS scandals under Obama and lied to congress. Now the rest of the crooks are returning. One has to wonder what the payoff is; maybe Trump’s tax returns.
The IRS is the domestic terrorist in the DC Swamp.
Yes. Something is going on here.
The IRS, under Trump, is allowed to go back to it’s old evil ways and the people who did them.
Trump blesses this.
Trump hires an AG who does nothing against Hillary, Rice, Lynch, Comey, Holder......even though a 6 year old could get these guys convicted in court.
My guess? The criminals are everywhere. If you try to bring one down, they have the goods on everybody. Likewise now with Trump. If he tries to go after the criminals in the IRS, he goes down for taxes.
Folks. We have lost our government. There is no one who has not been turned. Even Trump. The game is over. There is no point in voting ever again.
I wonder who the guy is who is really in charge? Would like to know his name.
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The sad truth is that government bureaucracy has become much too big and autonomous to be effectively managed.
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Name me ONE that *ISN’T*.
It is the SOP of G-O-V-T., known, noodled and acknowledged by our Founders vis a vie our Constitution.
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The IG reports. The IG doesn’t have line authority on who gets hired and fired. The IRS is just doing its usual of ignoring findings and recommendations.
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Any, why not? NOBODY has paid *ANY* price (unless you call lose of position w/ all bennies minus jail ‘getting tough’).
The feckless Congress? The spineless GOP\(R)NC?? HOW many years with nothing but ‘committee’ after ‘committee’??
The broader problem is the history of Inspector Generals in the civilian service. When first established, the original IGs were very independent. Over time, as their numbers grew from the original 3 or 4 statutory ones to a huge number today, they have become watered down in effectiveness. Recall that IG at Americorp who got in a fight with the mayor of Sacramento. He was run out of town for forcing an issue against the City and an Obama supporter.
When originally proposed, the IGs were to report directly to Congress. That was killed off into making them report to the Agency head while filing semi annual reports to Congress. Then the DOJ/FBI got annoyed the IGs were infringing on their turf to prosecute government fraud (which the IGs were given authority for because little was happening heretofore) and another bureaucracy was placed into the loop.
In summary, no administration wants any independent group embarrassing them with screw ups. Politics always wins.
As I posted on another thread:
The man has been in office for 7 months and is encountering tremendous resistance from the Swamp for every reform he attempts to make. Having so much corruption to clean up while being under attack from those who are supposed to be on your team would tend to slow one down, don’t you think?
I can be patient, and I will continue to pray for Trump and for our nation.
Why is that, you ax?
Because, these are the returns of legitimate taxpayers whose identities had been stolen and false tax returns filed using the stolen identity data so the criminals could get the refunds due via electronic return.
According to let's say "A professional person who would be in a position to know", the number of fraudulent returns still outstanding is "massive".
It would appear that the IRS frankly, honestly, did a good job of detecting at least some of the fraudulent returns back in the spring tax season and notifying individual taxpayers of the situation.
Since then... "jack".
Possibly these people are being brought in to do whatever bean-counting must be done with these returns to get them processed? That's a question, not an assertion.
Then again, is it possible that at least some of these people might have been involved with aforementioned plague of identity theft?
Who knows, but that's the news story that isn't making the news. I wonder why...
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"According to let's say "A professional person who would be in a position to know", the number of fraudulent returns still outstanding is "massive"."
Should read something like:
"...the number of legitimate returns still outstanding, affected by fraudulent filings, is massive."
Mouton, Thank you for a very informative post.
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