Posted on 11/09/2013 6:54:12 AM PST by John Semmens
Reports that the Internal Revenue Service pays billions of dollars a year to those who don't deserve them were dismissed by IRS officials as “unimportant” and “a distraction from more important concerns.”
An Inspector General's report issued this week revealed that the IRS paid over $4 billion to identity thieves. Examples of the fraudulent payments include 655 tax refunds sent to a single address in Lithuania and 343 to a single address in Shanghai, China.
The massive number of refunds sent to single addresses might be expected to set off “red flags” at the Agency. Commissioner, Daniel Werfel said “they did, but we had more on our plate than just trying to interdict ordinary con artists. As others have explained, the Administration had tasked us with the responsibility to scrutinize organizations that posed a threat to the government. We had to prioritize our limited resources. These cases of petty theft just fell through the cracks.”
The organizations garnering the IRS' attention were “right-wing political groups that might have seriously threatened the continued existence of the current Administration,” Werfel said. “The billions in erroneous payments represented a small fraction of the money available to the Government. These extremist groups were, in our opinion, the greater priority.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/144874-2013-11-08-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-november-10-2013.htm
Looked at the author first...but who would be surprised at such a thing happening???
WHAT?????!!!!! The billions are insignificant? That is because they are not HIS billions. Oh, tar and feathers for the whole bunch of them!
Ah, good.
The IRS has investigated themselves and determined that everything is fine. Just fine. And don’t you plebes worry about it one bit.
The confidence that instills is..........just a little nauseating.
This one was pretty good. Took me until the fourth paragraph to catch on.
I have to keep reminding myself this is satire-—b/c it sounds so plausible
Like talking points those idiots in the WH would handout.
Has the putrid smell of Valerie wafting all over it.
Why does FR allow this kind of satire nonsense? It takes time to put these threads together, more time to read them, then many, including myself, sometimes post to these, ultimately feeling sort of embarrassed that we’ve been had.
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I think there are only a few months left where it will be possible to write satirical articles about the Federal Government that are more absurd or horrifying than reality.
$4 FREAKING BILLION FREAKING dollars is “petty theft”?
In many cases I would agree...but in this case, I don’t consider this satire at all, if the IRS hasn’t excused itself yet over these real incidents of fraud, they soon will.
Thank goodness it’s only pretty theft.
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