I have forgotten who Shulman is. I don’t see him mentioned in the article
He was the IRS commissioner who visited the WH over 150 times during the period the targeting was apparently going on. If you recall he flippantly replied to a Congressman during one of the early hearings that it was for an Easter Egg roll.
His wife also has progressive connections...
Thanks
Was looking for something in email about Shulman and found two interesting things:
An IRS Scandal Inseparable from Obamacare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024697/posts
http://m.spectator.org/169477/show/1482431f2dafbbd5ac6701b46c652f60/?
[Scandal] involves IRS skullduggery relating to the exchanges. A year ago, the IRS finalized a regulatory ruling to the effect that it will issue tax credits through Obamacare’s federal insurance exchanges. Why is that such a big deal? Well, the IRS has been granted no legal authority, by the Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or any other act of Congress, to issue such credits. In fact, the ruling flouts the explicit language of Obamacare.
IRS seeks 4,000 agents, $303 million for Obamacare
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/416051
A new Government Accountability Office review of the IRS 2012 tax return season and the taxman’s fiscal 2013 budget request also found that the agency’s customer service rating has slipped and 5.5 million returns were delayed a week because of a computer programming glitch.
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The audit looked at everything from customer service to pending budget issues. It found that the agency’s “level of service” via phone calls