Posted on 07/15/2014 10:03:02 AM PDT by PoloSec
Irrelevant. The Congress sets the budget and the President signs the budget. From that point forward, the House of Representatives writes the checks (appropriates funds) for the items in the budget.
This vote was to withhold funds (not appropriate then/not write the check) which does not require approval by the Senate or President.
So let the Democrats WHINE that the IRS isn't fully funded. BOO FUCKING HOO!!@!!!
it will be killed in the senate, unless enough democrats are afraid not to vote for it cause they are up for reelection...
They’ll apologize tomorrow.
And Boehner will cry.
Obama will veto it.
The House has to refuse to budge.
If the Senate fights them, then the entire IRS affair hits the news. Democrats get to decide between defunding or the people finally learning what’s been happening.
And the people are NOT going to complain about the enforcement arm of the IRS being cut. For my part, there’s not a lot of love lost for the IRS.
The House voted to start the funding and does initiate funding. The House passed the funding to begin with. Both houses and the President agree to cut funding, when that happens (rarely). The House is play acting before an election.
I think you’re conflating two jokes:
“What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean.”
“A (good) start.”
“What do you call it when a bus carrying 99 lawyers and one empty seat goes off a cliff.”
“A tragedy ... that one seat was empty.”
I never was much of a comedian!
LOL!
Thanks for the clarification.
IRS Mission Statement FRom FY 2013 Budget request:
“Provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.”
A genuine BS statement if I ever read one!
Reid fighting this would bring some light to the roaches.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE/INCARCERATE
Long overdue.
from FReeper servantboy777…
ABOLISH the IRS.
The government should never ever be allowed to abuse this power again.
BUMP!
Hopefully this is not a political stunt leading up to the elections.
Should have reduced it to ZERO by passing the Fairtax!
http://fairtax.org
Pre-election season is so much fun. A nice next step would be a few billion out of the NSA budget, the part that compiles data about US citizens.
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