Posted on 07/15/2014 10:03:02 AM PDT by PoloSec
BREAKING: House Votes to Gut the IRS of Over $1 BILLION in Funding [DETAILS]
House Republicans are serving up a few slices of sweet revenge by hacking and slashing the IRS budget as punishment for illegally targeting conservative groups.
The IRS, an agency that now has a reputation as being a “hatchet man” for the Obama administration, is finding out how it feels to be a target, as the House recently voted to reduce their enforcement budget by $1 billion. Ouch.
IRS documents clearly indicate that officials targeted conservative groups for audit far more than liberal ones, in an attempt to intimidate individuals from starting groups that oppose the president and his progressive agenda.
Once word got out about the IRS’ activity, things hit the fan, and now the world seems to be imploding all around the president’s favorite form of government oppression.
House members are also discussing the possibility of making even more cuts to the 2015 budget, which could really sink the ship for the IRS.
via TheBlaze:
The House voted Monday to cut more than $1 billion from the IRS’s tax enforcement budget, giving Republicans a big helping of revenge against an agency they’ve battled all year.
Members of the House this week are considering the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2015. The bill being debated on the House floor would already cut IRS funding by $341 million compared to the current fiscal year.
The biggest reduction came from Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), who proposed a whopping $788 million cut from the IRS’s $5 billion tax enforcement budget.
“The IRS has been targeting American taxpayers, as we’ve learned, for their political beliefs for the last four or five years,” Huizenga said. “During this period, a culture of shading the truth was fostered and developed by directors and administrators throughout the IRS.
“Now this culture within the IRS has grown to one of stonewalling, double-talk and mistrust. It’s up to Congress to use the power of the purse… to rein in the IRS and force them to conduct their analysis in an unbiased manner.”
The huge cut was approved in a voice vote.
Moments earlier, the House voice-vote approved another amendment from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) to eliminate another $353 million from IRS enforcement funds. The House also approved amendments from Reps. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to chop another $3 million from the same account.
Awesome. The IRS is clearly nothing more than a weapon for political leaders to use as a means of punishing individuals who don’t go along with the program. It has grown bloated and it’s overreach knows no bounds, which is why it not only should be subject to these budget cuts, but it should be abolished altogether.
Hopefully, with the dirty secrets being aired for all to see, the movement to abolish the IRS will become mainstream and the American people can get some of their freedom and peace of mind back from the government.
Can the House do this on its own or does it have to pass Dingy Harry?
They'll apologize tomorrow.
Lernin the right way. Now they are all Lerners.
Has this “massive cut” been passed by teh Senate and signed by the President?
When that happens, get back to us.
They’ll pass this with one hand, then put 99% of it back with the other hand under the table.
Can we expect the GOP to carry this out?
Or will the GOPe intervene to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Its not exactly gutting but is a good start.
This is funding. I don’t believe it needs the senate or president.
Put it in the ICE budget..................
I’ll believe it when it really happens but it is still $4billion too high and that would be just a good start on all the agencies.
How about a little EPA, HUD, USDA, FDA, DOE action?
The pessimist agrees with you, and says that when they cut the other 20 Billion or so that funds the rest of the IRS, we'll be in business.
It has grown bloated and it’s overreach knows no bounds, which is why it not only should be subject to these budget cuts, but it should be abolished altogether.
Indeed. NRST excise solves it.
All bills must be signed by both houses and the president. Spending bills must originate in the house... [at least that's the constitution - i think there's at least one lawsuit now at federal level challenging 0care on those grounds.]
If the last six yrs is a predictor, Harry Reid's Senate will not take up the bill - they will call for a "clean budget" that funds everything or they'll shut down the gov't again - and blame repubs again.
Let's hope we can take the Senate - that would be a political game-changer wrt budget bills. 0bama would have to veto them... that would obviously make it harder to blame repubs.
It is my understanding that Dirty Harry and the Senate have to approve these cuts. I could be wrong.
Flat tax, fair tax, no,income tax, whatever will work, let’s defund the entire IRS. Send tax to treasury.
I’m unimpressed.
Let them reduce IRS funding to the salaries of 1000 staffers, with NO ARMED ENFORCEMENT personnel.
Possible translation ...
New IRS budget increase 4 billion, they ‘gut’ 1 billion, net increase 3 billion.
How much you wanna bet >!@)(!#
How could they do that to all of those “good” people at the IRS?
F**K em and feed em fish heads!
I'm in.
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