Posted on 07/15/2014 3:23:09 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-controlled House has voted to slash the budget for the Internal Revenue Service's tax enforcement division by $1.2 billion, a 25 percent cut that would mean fewer audits of taxpayers and make it more likely that people who cheat on their taxes will get away with it. The House approved the cuts by voice vote after little debate Monday night as it took up a $21 billion spending bill that sets the IRS budget. The cuts reflect GOP outrage over the agency's scrutiny of tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status and frustration over the agency's failure to produce thousands of emails by Lois Lerner, the official formerly in charge of the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. "The use of a government agency to harass, target, intimidate and threaten lawful, honest citizens was the worst form of authoritarianism," said Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., author of an amendment to cut the IRS tax enforcement budget by $353 million. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., followed up with an amendment to cut $788 million more. The underlying bill already contained a $72 million cut from last year's $5 billion enforcement budget, bringing the total cut to $1.2 billion.
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I got this bridge.....
Dont defend corruption.
They should do this every day.
They should defund Romneycare/Obamacare every day.
They should submit an indictment for treason EVERY DAY.
A whole lot of people there are going to see no profit in protecting the higher ups. Good.
$13 billion down to $12 billion?
Meh, big deal.
Miss Romney yet? Guess you just haven't the capacity to see the difference between King Obama and Romney.
RomneyCARE = ObamaCARE = STATISM.
Like gay marriage, future generations will
know that it began with the pen of Rat Romney.
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn't make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
.
That’s around 300+ pieces of legislation the House has voted on that went to the Senate and was shredded.
Until both houses are cleaned out and the occupy White House scum leaves.. there’s little hope.
RINOmney is an enemy of conservatism and is in a cult.
I would rather see more cheaters and less payers harassed.
No! The twink, like his supporters, is a dictocrat. "Fascist leaders such as Mussolini and Hitler spoke of the need for the creation of a new managerial elite to be led by engineers and captains of industry that was free from parasitic leadership of industries."
Sadly, Mr. Reagan did just that: Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, George Herbert Walker Bush, Howard Henry Baker, quite a long list.
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