An original FR thread - Obama's Performance Czar has Tried to Improve IRS
Posted on 02/03/2009 8:17:20 PM PST by Libloather
Chief Performance Officer: Nancy Killefer
By Alyssa Fetini Friday, Jan. 09, 2009
Washington is about to get its first official waste watchdog. President-elect Barack Obama recently tapped Nancy Killefer to fill the newly created role of chief performance officer. Killefer, a senior director at management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co., will be in charge of combing through the federal budget to weed out unnecessary programs and streamline government efficiency.
The position, which Obama has described as one of the most important in his Administration, is part of a new initiative to control federal spending, reform massive government entitlement programs and curb the pork-barrel spending that has contributed to the country's budget-deficit crisis.
Fast Facts:
• She took a hiatus from her work at McKinsey from 1997 to 2000 to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, where she led a major modernization of the Internal Revenue Service. Clinton later appointed her to the IRS Oversight Board.
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Quotes By:
• "When I get something in the mail from the IRS, I just pay it. I don't have time. But if I knew I could call in and not be put on hold forever, I'd call."
— after the IRS launched its first open house in 1997, which gave taxpayers an opportunity to discuss issues with IRS representatives face-to-face, TIME magazine, Nov. 24, 1997
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Quotes About:
• "She did make an error having to do with district unemployment tax payment, but it has been corrected."
— Obama transition spokesman Tommy Vietor, on Killefer's run-in with the IRS, Associated Press, Jan. 7, 2009
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Aren’t there any dems who haven’t cheated on their taxes?
Well most of their voters don't have jobs so they don't get the chance to cheat on their taxes.
Lets not forget Rangel!
I'd like to apply for the job of "Chief Performance Officer." My tax filings are clean.
He doesn’t count, he only writes the tax laws. How could he know what is taxable and what’s not? Another not funny joke.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2177546/posts
Obama: Enough Of This Crap
This is FOUR people who you’ve appointed that can’t pay their damn taxes, including your Treasury Secretary?
The latest is that Daschle has withdrawn, of course.
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN?
I’ll tell you what would be change. Since it appears that a huge percentage of the current and former Congressional delegation has cheated on its taxes - after all, what are the odds you only picked the tax cheats, if you want me to believe in your idea of CHANGE you will immediately order all member of Congress in both Houses to undergo full IRS audits all the way back to the Statute of Limitations (three years), along with all of their staff.
You and I know know it won’t happen, but I’ll tell you what - I keep hearing people say they’re going to file absolute crap this year. Utter garbage. “The Dog ate my Schedule C.”
If The American People do this, Mr. President, government funding will collapse. The IRS can’t possibly audit everyone and we all know it.
Your administration is dangerously close to creating a full-on tax revolt among Americans. You would not believe how often I have heard this among people both online and off in the last couple of weeks. The anger, especially when the people who are cheating are folks like Daschle and Geithner, is VISCERAL - these are the people who both wrote the tax code and were involved in the bailouts and handouts which you expect we the people - ordinary Americans - to pay for.
I file and pay every year exactly what I owe. No cheating, no games, no BS. I spend upwards of a full week preparing and checking my tax return to make sure that I pay every dollar that is due (but not one more!) But now we discover that every day another one of your appointees in your “new day” for Washington DC has cheated on their taxes and in the case of Daschle and Geithner they knew they owed the money and didn’t pay until you tapped them?
Against this backdrop you expect ordinary Americans to file and pay for bankster bailouts to cover the fraudulent actions of the banking and securitization industry?
You might want to rethink this one, and I can come up with only two ways to do it:
* Audit EVERY Congressperson and EVERY staffer in your administration, including yourself. Everyone, all the way back to the statute of limitations, with the results of those audits made public.
* Ditch the IRS and the current tax system entirely (mooting the question) and move the nation to The Fair Tax, thereby firing all the tax lobbyists and game-players in DC and elsewhere.
Frankly I prefer #2 but #1 is acceptable.
“Do nothing”, on the other hand, may well NOT be accepted by The American people.
If what I hear in my day-to-day the patience of “The People” is about done.
“I’d like to apply for the job of “Chief Performance Officer.” My tax filings are clean.”
Awe, I’m sorry that disqualifies you. Tough break buddy.
Dam. I shouldn’t have mentioned that.
So far Killefer has proved to be both the smartest and dumbest of the Obama appointees to withdraw. She withdrew before the coverage got too public or brutal = smart; her tax problem was under one measyly grand = dumb. If you’re going to have a tax issue, make it worthwhile, like Daschle.
I’ve noted elsewhere on this topic that Ms. Killefer’s employer, McKinsey & Co., is coincidentally the same one that hired Chelsea Clinton right out of school at about double the salary offered her comparably experienced peers.
Small, small world, isn’t it ?
Rev up the bus and get those wheel a rollin.
Plenty of pawns for 0 to begin throwing under those wheels!
Saw a good bumper sticker about this subject
“Balance the budget/Audit a democrat”
chief performance... she must have been a “fluffer” in a prior life in order to get nominated for this position.
3/30/04 Killefer quote:
“The IRS must prove to the public that it can and will identify and pursue those who show contempt for the tax code.”
This is why democrats have no problem in raising taxes. They don't pay taxes.
Would this be a violation of the separations of powers? An executive position to monitor and try to control the legislative?
I don’t get it.
Why the picture of a pissed off old man when your post is about a chick?
Maybe, we should start reporting these obviously illegal tax evasions by rats to the IRS and to the following site.
Former IRS Attorneys for Tax Whistleblower Rewards
Tax Whistleblower Reward Program
The United States of America Will Pay Huge Rewards to Anyone Who Exposes the Under reporting of Tax
THE PROBLEM: Billions of Dollars in Unpaid Taxes
In the United States of America, a small percentage of taxpayers (i.e., individuals, businesses, trusts, and estates) underreport and fail to pay up to $400 billion in taxes every year, according to a study released by the Internal Revenue Service. This small group is comprised of an elitist group of wealthy Americans and businesses who neglect or refuse to pay their fair share of tax and who undermine the stability of the country to satisfy their own personal greed. This missing revenue causes unnecessary increases in annual deficits, national debt, and national interest payments. In the end, this missing revenue must be made up by honest Americans through higher taxes.
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