Dem rep: We’re “asking for more trouble” from the IRS by cutting its budget

Hotair ^ | 06/03/2013 | AllahPundit

[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.

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[muawiyah]

The income tax is a relic of the 19th century ~ based on a 17th and 18th century understanding of income. You remember the books ~ so and so was worth 15 pounds a year, and someone else was worth 6 bob!

Those were references to people ~ young people ~ with fixed incomes derived from family trusts, or farm land rented to tenants.

It was a way of thinking about people that eventually passed into obscurity known only from boring English literature, and from folks who think the income tax can actually be used to 'transfer wealth' ~

[ldish]

you say “Flat Tax”...i say “Fair Rax”...like VAT...we all pay same % of what we SPEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and do away with IRS all together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SueRae]

Horsecrap. I watched the hearings again on CSPAN...and one of the reps. pointed out that the IRS budget was increased SUBSTANTIALLY in 2010, coinciding with the start of this abuse by the IRS. It was a nice smackdown.

[rfp1234]

Of course they need more $$$. Otherwise, they'd have to make their Star Trek videos using costumes like these.

[4buttons]

a smaller IRS would make a for a smaller kleptocracy

[BCR #226]

Cutting their budget??? They need to defund the entire agency RFN. ANY agency that abuses it’s power like that, and especially for political purposes, needs to be immediately defunded, destroyed, all employees fired and it’s functions eliminated completely to prevent such abuse again!

[publius911]

Dem rep: We’re “asking for more trouble” from the IRS by cutting its budget

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Arrogant a*****e!
Is that supposed to be an offer the honest net-income-taxpaying American worker can't refuse?

[2ndDivisionVet]

BREAKING: IRS Paper Trail All The Way To The Top Level In D.C.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/06/breaking-irs-papertrail-all-the-way-to-the-top-level-in-d-c/

[rockrr]

“You’ll keep your mouth shut and the money coming if you know what’s good for ya”