Posted on 06/05/2013 5:02:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
It must be nice to be a leftist. The solution to every problem is more of someone else's money.
That's the favored solution over on the Democratic Party side of the aisle when it comes to the IRS' targeting of conservative non-profits. In a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano of New York suggested, "There is no clearer way to promote more scandals than by cutting funding that could be used for oversight, training and reform. At the level of this subcommittee is funded right now, we're just asking for more trouble at the IRS and elsewhere."
This idiocy became a running theme at the hearing. Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York made the same point. Even the acting IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel said that the problem with the IRS wasn't lack of cash. "The solution here is, in my opinion, not more money," he said to the shock of the Democrats on the committee. "If you start with more money, that's the wrong starting point."
But that is the left's only starting point. No matter what the scandal, no matter what the problem, no matter what the snafu, the left's solution is to dump money on a problem. The administrative government must grow at all costs. God forbid the American people should have the ability to decide their own tax rates as an effect of a tax on consumption rather than earnings. We must have bureaucrats and more bureaucrats available to scrutinize the choices Americans make. And if those bureaucrats fail, we must have more bureaucrats to monitor them.
The left's version of administrative government looks an awful lot like Dr. Seuss' bee-watcher scheme: "Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch. Is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee, a bee that is watched will work harder you see. So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch that bee didn't work any harder, not mawtch. So then somebody said, 'Our old bee-watching man just isn't bee watching as hard as he can, he ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a bee-watcher-watcher!' Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher. He didn't watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a watch-watcher-watcher! And now all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are watching on watch watcher watchering watch, watch watching the watcher who's watching that bee."
If all those bee watchers unionized, we'd be talking about the federal government.
For even as the Democrats tell Americans that they ought to spend more money on the IRS, former IRS non-profit head Lois Lerner is off somewhere on paid leave; Sarah Hall Ingram, former commissioner of tax exempt and government entities division, is enjoying her $103,000+ bonuses during the period in question; Joseph Grant, former deputy commissioner of tax exempt, is enjoying his $84,000 in bonuses, as well. The IRS spent $4.1 million on a 2010 Anaheim conference that included a $17,000 speakers fee for a fellow who painted Bono on stage to show that "the thought process (should be freed) to find creative solutions to challenges."
The conservative vision of the world says that people are not by nature good and that unchecked power in the hands of an unelected bureaucracy is dangerous. The only way to cure that problem is to devolve power to individuals over their own lives. The left's idea: Tax those individuals, and give power to a subset of wiser, smarter folks.
The results are evident at the IRS.
Obama ordered his IRS to rig the election of 2012 for Obama and democrats/socialists in the Senate. Obama also used other gov agencies to rig the election. Why isn’t anyone shouting this form the rooftops? Come on Levin, coulter , Sarah Palin, Rush, DRudge etc. call Obama out on this and call for Obama’s resignation.
Obama’s IRS prevented many tea party groups from getting started and also audited individual donors to Romney and to the Republican party. The IRS stole the election. We no longer live in a free country
“Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Thursday his constituents have suggested they were audited by the Internal Revenue Service because they donated to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. ....”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023043/posts
They spend 40 million to party but don’t have enough money to do their job?
Hogwash !!!
If an agency is that far gone, it should not exist at all.
BINGO!! I have always said that if your are a Republican or conservative you will NOT GET MEDICAL CARE UNDER OBAMACARE!!!!!! BEWARE.
They need more money
Quick! Give them more money!
Rotten Dems defending the incompetent, greedy, unfair heavy handedness of the out of control IRS. Enemies all within America. Heaven on earth will be devoid of godless leftists.
That’s a utopia in my opinion.
If you can’t sue individuals, sue the DNC and organizations that benefited from the profiling and harassment of Christians, Conservatives and Pro-Israel groups.
This made me think of Willie Sutton, “........because that is where the money is.” But after a little research, it is because they love it and enjoy it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton
In his partly ghostwritten autobiography, Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber (Viking Press, New York, 1976), Sutton dismissed this story, saying:
The irony of using a bank robber’s maxim as an instrument for teaching medicine is compounded, I will now confess, by the fact that I never said it. The credit belongs to some enterprising reporter who apparently felt a need to fill out his copy...
If anybody had asked me, I’d have probably said it. That’s what almost anybody would say...it couldn’t be more obvious.
Or could it?
Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I’d be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that’s all.
Go where the money is...and go there often.[4][5]
Oh, and don’t forget, they didn’t keep receipts for that partying, either.
HEAVEN FORBID!
The rallying cry of the American Revolution!
Dear, sweet Jesus and baby Jesus, if this isn't the core of your personal political ideology . . . I'd suggest you're not an American.
The level of stupidity that the Democrats shows never ceases to amaze me. It constantly redefines Rush’s “Low Information Voter” descriptor.
Its a wonder they can breathe without someone helping them.
A lack of money would have the opposite effect to that which they are claiming. They might not be sending enough questions as part of the approval process rather than sending pages and pages and pages of irrelevant and time-consuming dreck again and again.
If money is the issue here clearly it would be that they have TOO MUCH money and TOO MUCH in the way of resources.... and that would naïvely be giving the benefit of the doubt that this simply wasn’t a partisan campaign effort.
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