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Stop starving the beast of the IRS (Barf Alert!)
The Washington Post ^ | July 1, 2014 | Catherine Rampell

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.

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This thing reads like a repackaging of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's pathetic whining.

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.

1 posted on 07/03/2014 5:06:07 AM PDT by magellan
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“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.


2 posted on 07/03/2014 5:09:06 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: magellan
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

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.


3 posted on 07/03/2014 5:13:02 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: magellan

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.


4 posted on 07/03/2014 5:13:38 AM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: magellan

“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.


5 posted on 07/03/2014 5:17:26 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Incoming fire always has the right of way.)
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What a moron. The IRS doesn’t “generate money”. It confiscates it.


6 posted on 07/03/2014 5:23:22 AM PDT by wny
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To: magellan

I’m stunned to learn that the IRS only collects at the ratio of 225 to 1. Wow.


7 posted on 07/03/2014 5:25:53 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: magellan
For every dollar the IRS is funded it diverts $225 away from productive investment and diminishes the economy to that extent.


8 posted on 07/03/2014 5:27:27 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: carriage_hill
"I pay Guido $100/week, and he shakes down collects $25,500/week."

That's how I read it.

/johnny

9 posted on 07/03/2014 5:28:17 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Okay; makes perfect sense, now! lol.


10 posted on 07/03/2014 5:35:45 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Incoming fire always has the right of way.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

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!


11 posted on 07/03/2014 5:36:24 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: magellan
given the suspicious disappearance of a few thousand million key e-mails that Congress wants to see.

All fixed.

12 posted on 07/03/2014 5:36:41 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (7 hard drives crashed at exactly the most opportune moment for the Regime. Coincidence?)
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For every dollar appropriated to the IRS in the 2013 fiscal year, the agency collected $255

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.

13 posted on 07/03/2014 5:39:11 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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“But they made the trains run on time!”


14 posted on 07/03/2014 5:40:05 AM PDT by Harry Pothead (Go Sarah! I still love her...)
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To: TalBlack

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.


15 posted on 07/03/2014 5:41:37 AM PDT by woodyinscc
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To: magellan
This is the same Washington Post that could find nothing good to say about the Nixon administration. And now they're defending the IRSS????

Lickspittle journalism at its best ...

16 posted on 07/03/2014 5:49:28 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: carriage_hill
The difference between governments and shakedown/protection rackets is very narrow. Mainly, it seems to boil down to snappy uniforms.

/johnny

17 posted on 07/03/2014 5:51:15 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: magellan
But right now, the IRS desperately needs a champion.

No it don't...it needs to be abolished.

18 posted on 07/03/2014 5:55:15 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: magellan

“The IRS generates way more money than it spends”

Criminal stupidity.


19 posted on 07/03/2014 5:56:24 AM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: magellan

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.


20 posted on 07/03/2014 5:58:23 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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