Posted on 06/03/2013 2:16:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Simple logic via the Weekly Standard: If the IRS is already this corrupt at its current funding level, imagine how much more corrupt it’ll be once there’s less money to pay for oversight and ethical training of IRS employees. By the same token, presumably if we increased the agency’s budget tenfold, we’d see a sharp decline in corruption thanks to all the extra oversight and training IRS workers would be getting. I wonder if Serrano has a ballpark figure on how much extra we’d need to pay the agency to get them to not harass conservatives in the future. If there’s already a baseline of corruption there, with only the extent of it susceptible to budget volatility, then I’m thinking maybe we should cancel oversight and training altogether and just hand IRS employees the money budgeted for those departments as bribes.
By the way, this isn’t the first time Serrano’s called for more money for the IRS and it isn’t the first excuse he’s offered in order to get it. Two years ago, he made another simple point to justify boosting money for the agency — namely, the more money we appropriate for it, the more money the IRS makes for the government by chasing down tax cheats and auditing people. (“It makes little sense to cut the agency that collects revenue.”) The path to a balanced budget runs, in part it seems, through a much more powerful, aggressive tax collector. Democrats should run on that message next year. Oh, and if all of this sounds suspiciously like extortion to you — more money for the government or who knows how abusive it might get — there’s a possible reason for that. Jose Serrano was quite openly a fan of Hugo Chavez, inviting him to his home district in 2005 and mourning him publicly while the rest of Washington, including many Democrats, made the stinkface after Chavez’s death a few months ago. Go figure that he seems to believe there’s no problem, including government corruption, that can’t be solved by making government bigger and richer.
“The IRS simply cannot sustain itself with this overall funding level.”
If we defund it completely we will then have nothing to fear.
I can think of worse things that stopping the IRS from carrying out its job as the thuggish enforcer of an ever-expanding, unsustainable Welfare State.
Choke it off completely.
” If we defund it completely we will then have nothing to fear.”
BUMP
First fire a bunch of them or throw them in jail. That alone would cut down on the "trouble."
Ah, the audits were cuz we failed to pay to training them against it, okaaaay....
Ya know I’ve never been trained to NOT shoot bureaucrats in the head, yet, lo and behold, I DIDN’T DO IT.
What are the odds, right..?
Yet WERE I to do so, would statements like, “Hey, ya failed to train me NOT to” provide me a defense...?
Flat Tax.
$50 million for meetings, money for spoof videos, but if we fail to BOOST funding then we are, “ASKING FOR IT”...?
That’s a really amazing statement.
Imagine:
You come home to discover your sobbing daughter has been raped —by me. I’ve got my pants down, peering at you.
“You failed to train me to NOT do that —see how you’re responsible...?”
You are dumb-founded as you begin rifling through your nearby dresser drawer for your .44 mag:
“If you don’t PAY ME, I’ve got to warn you that next time it could BE REALLY BAD....”
Can you BELIEVE these people..?
“The IRS simply cannot sustain itself with this overall funding level.”
As if that is a bad thing!
Jose Serrano -
Serrano, a Democrat from New York, represents a district that is one of the smallest in the country geographically, consisting of a few miles of the heavily urbanized and populated South Bronx in New York City. His district is also one of the most densely populated and one of the few majority Hispanic districts in the country.
In the aftermath of the death of Hugo Chávez, Congressman Serrano wrote condolences to Chavez via Twitter describing him as a leader who, “understood the needs of the poor. He was committed to empowering the powerless. R.I.P. Mr. President.”
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IRS scandal: IG report reveals $50 million spent on employee conferences
some of the 2,600 attendees received benefits, including baseball tickets and stays in presidential suites that normally cost $1,500 to $3,500 per night. In addition, 15 outside speakers were paid a total of $135,000 in fees, with one paid $17,000 to talk about “leadership through art,” the committee said.
So they must be bribed in order to not be corrupt? They need special training in order to not be corrupt? Wow.
Rule of law. Put them in prison.
Then dismantle the IRS.
We’ve got to get back to actually PUNISHING people who commit crimes!
So the IRS is changing it’s name to OWS!
flat tax OR national sales tax. The IRS than can be reduced to 1/10th its size or abolished all together.
There is no hope for the dems.
B.S.!
KILL THE IRS.
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