Posted on 07/03/2014 5:06:07 AM PDT by magellan
Pretty much everyone hates the Internal Revenue Service. And I realize this is an especially strange time to stick up for the agency, given the suspicious disappearance of a few thousand key e-mails that Congress wants to see. But right now, the IRS desperately needs a champion.
Our country’s fiscal future — not to mention taxpayers’ collective mental health — depends on it.
The IRS generates way more money than it spends, after all. For every dollar appropriated to the IRS in the 2013 fiscal year, the agency collected $255, according to the national taxpayer advocate’s office. That’s a darn good return on investment.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Theft ALWAYS has a good return on investment, you dolt! "Generate" revenue? The Taxpayers "Generate" the revenue, you freakin' clueless moron.
Catherine Rampell went to Andover (the expensive boarding school G.W. Bush and Al Gore went to) and Princeton. She scored 1600 on the SAT.
She is a female Ezra Klein, attempting "explanatorey journalism". And she does not have the common sense God gave a goat.
“The IRS generates way more money than it spends,”
WOW. That’s just flat out amazing. Who would have ever though the IRS would bring in more money than it spends.
Right there it is !
Another 255 reasons to disband the IRS, neuter the believers, destroy the buildings, salt the earth upon which they stood and forbid the speaking or writing of the name throughout the galaxy for the next 10,000 centuries.
They took our money and proceeded to push the election toward those who would destroy the entire country... I’m not seeing the benefit yet. There are better ways of collecting taxes.
“For every dollar appropriated to the IRS in the 2013 fiscal year, the agency collected $255...”
I read that 3x and still don’t understand such convoluted thinking, except from a libtard.
What a moron. The IRS doesn’t “generate money”. It confiscates it.
I’m stunned to learn that the IRS only collects at the ratio of 225 to 1. Wow.
That's how I read it.
/johnny
Okay; makes perfect sense, now! lol.
The IRS is so strapped for resources that it could only manage to harass a few dozen conservative groups by concocting hundreds of illegal questions. Just think of what they could have done with more troopies!
All fixed.
Yeah, except both the appropriations and collections come from the same place-
US!
But I agree, we SHOULD stop 'starving the beast'......and just drive a stake through its heart.
“But they made the trains run on time!”
I’m stunned to learn that the IRS only collects at the ratio of 225 to 1. Wow.
A grim example of Government at work!
If it were a charity(even for a good cause) I would not donate.
Lickspittle journalism at its best ...
/johnny
No it don't...it needs to be abolished.
“The IRS generates way more money than it spends”
Criminal stupidity.
Until obammy is done trying to destroy American and is gone, nothing good will happen with the federal gubmint.
This butthead only knows one thing, marxism and we all know it just won’t work.
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