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.
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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