Posted on 07/15/2014 10:03:02 AM PDT by PoloSec
BREAKING: House Votes to Gut the IRS of Over $1 BILLION in Funding [DETAILS]
House Republicans are serving up a few slices of sweet revenge by hacking and slashing the IRS budget as punishment for illegally targeting conservative groups.
The IRS, an agency that now has a reputation as being a “hatchet man” for the Obama administration, is finding out how it feels to be a target, as the House recently voted to reduce their enforcement budget by $1 billion. Ouch.
IRS documents clearly indicate that officials targeted conservative groups for audit far more than liberal ones, in an attempt to intimidate individuals from starting groups that oppose the president and his progressive agenda.
Once word got out about the IRS’ activity, things hit the fan, and now the world seems to be imploding all around the president’s favorite form of government oppression.
House members are also discussing the possibility of making even more cuts to the 2015 budget, which could really sink the ship for the IRS.
via TheBlaze:
The House voted Monday to cut more than $1 billion from the IRS’s tax enforcement budget, giving Republicans a big helping of revenge against an agency they’ve battled all year.
Members of the House this week are considering the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2015. The bill being debated on the House floor would already cut IRS funding by $341 million compared to the current fiscal year.
The biggest reduction came from Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), who proposed a whopping $788 million cut from the IRS’s $5 billion tax enforcement budget.
“The IRS has been targeting American taxpayers, as we’ve learned, for their political beliefs for the last four or five years,” Huizenga said. “During this period, a culture of shading the truth was fostered and developed by directors and administrators throughout the IRS.
“Now this culture within the IRS has grown to one of stonewalling, double-talk and mistrust. It’s up to Congress to use the power of the purse… to rein in the IRS and force them to conduct their analysis in an unbiased manner.”
The huge cut was approved in a voice vote.
Moments earlier, the House voice-vote approved another amendment from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) to eliminate another $353 million from IRS enforcement funds. The House also approved amendments from Reps. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to chop another $3 million from the same account.
Awesome. The IRS is clearly nothing more than a weapon for political leaders to use as a means of punishing individuals who don’t go along with the program. It has grown bloated and it’s overreach knows no bounds, which is why it not only should be subject to these budget cuts, but it should be abolished altogether.
Hopefully, with the dirty secrets being aired for all to see, the movement to abolish the IRS will become mainstream and the American people can get some of their freedom and peace of mind back from the government.
Ping
Better, but MEH....
$13.5 billion down to $12.5 billion...?
Meh...
I bet their budget has increased 10b over the last 5 years.
Purse string is controlled by the house Harry is irrelevant.
With all due respect to the English language, I think the word “gut” is a little over the top.
Note that this one billion reduction is applied to the IRS tax enforcement budget of five billion.
20%. meh. Will it stick? Doubt it.
You both need to go back to civics class.
The annual IRS budget is about $11.5 billion.
D’oh ,you forgot the EPA
As much as I am disappointed in the GOPe, I am willing to give credit where it is due. Good move.
Give us the emails, we might give back the billion.
“House votes to ensure IRS will bilk 1,000,000,000 more fines and penalties from taxpayers.”
DEFUND completely. That’ll get their attention.
A billion here, a billion there, soon you’re talking about real money. This sounds better than the first plan I heard last week to cut, what was it? some $300. Million. That would have been not even a drop in their buckets. This is a good start.
I bet their budget has increased 10b over the last 5 years.
W gave them some nice budget increases, too.
If Harry gets the budget bill and votes it down then so be it, they haven’t passed a budget yet.
Thanks for the ping, Darius.
This is like the old joke about the definition of “A Start:”
“A busload of lawyers going over a cliff with one empty seat.”
They should have called for replacing the IRS with the FairTax and ABOLISHING THE IRS ALTOGETHER!
We’ll know they are serious when they do that and force a floor vote!
Get rid of the IRS and you will get rid of the ability to use it as a weapon.
Yeah!!
Purse strings are controlled by the House only in a negative sense. If legislation cutting this funding does not pass (and it won't), then Obama will get a CR that allows the spending, and most Republicans will vote for it, as they have been doing since 2009.
IRS operating budget:
2012 - $12,515,092,000.
2013 - $12,792,690,000
2014 - $13,358,007,000 (requested)
If the House wants to punish them, it should cut 2 billion.
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