Posted on 03/12/2016 7:28:38 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Millions of Americans are filing their taxes this month—and getting a good reminder of why they despise the IRS. But thanks to the Republican majority in Congress, the IRS is being forced to start cleaning up its act.
When the IRS scandal broke, Congress demanded answers from the agency’s top officials. Were they targeting groups for their religious and political beliefs?
No, they said, it was just a few rogue employees in Ohio—if anything at all. Well, what happened to Lois Lerner’s emails? Oh, they were lost in a tragic hard drive crash. Shouldn’t we update our laws to prevent future abuses? Don’t worry, the IRS responded with a cavalier attitude, we’ve got it covered.
By shining sunlight on the IRS, we demonstrated that conservative groups were being targeted for abuse based on their political beliefs. Many important—and perhaps, incriminating—emails were destroyed. And no safeguards were installed to stop any of it from happening again.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
This is just another nothingburger. Nothing has changed at the IRS. GOPe talk is cheap.
“The single best thing we can do to rein in the IRS is to fix our tax code.”
Too little, too late.
Where are the arrests and prosecutions? Zippo, GOPe.
Yep. They, the GOPe, failed us completely. I’m doing my taxes this weekend. I’m really loving all the new health care forms. Bravo, GOPe! Great work rolling back the Obama (mal)administration!
Pure crap, nonsence, nothing has changed. The slave has become the master.
IRS is #1 police force to enforce Obamacare.
Those who chose to not sign up for Obamacare have to pay the IRS $383 (on average).
6 of 10 of the working poor who did sign up for Obamacare have to pay the IRS a penalty of $579 (on average).
So who did Obamacare benefit? The IRS (oh, and for a short period insurance companies and medical providers who sold their freedom for a mess of pottage.
Who's been fired so far? Who's been indicted?
Just weeks ago, we learned that a cyber attack may have breached the accounts of more than 700,000 taxpayers. That’s more than double the agency’s original estimate. All Americans deserve to have confidence that they will be treated fairly by the IRS—and our work won’t stop until this is a reality.
Has Ryan put his foot down? Has he given anyone a good talking to?
The single best thing we can do to rein in the IRS is to fix our tax code. Instead of a tax code all of us can live by, we have a code that none of us can understand. We need to simplify the code so that it helps create jobs and raise wages. And that’s why tax reform is at the top of our agenda to restore a confident America.
It's about time!!! We have only been listening to this drivel for 30 or 40 years. Is Ryan's middle mane "Echo?"
How much has the IRS budget been cut in the last year and two months?
Yup.
The IRS had better straighten out or there will be some more do-nothing hearings on capital hill !!!!
We don’t want the IRS to clean up its act. We want the IRS to fall in total destruction.
Please change headline to Republicans blow
And if you had used simple language as if talking to a child,
you might have persuaded George Bush to pull his thumb out of his ass long enough to sign the bill into law.
GOPe Kabuki Theater
The Justice Department declined to prosecute the bimbo responsible for pursuing Tea Party assns.
Ryan is a prostitute. He would never dare go against the Dem feeders. He passed the Democrat Omnibus bill with almost 100% Dem votes and a GOP majority against it.
That’s a bullsh*t meme. We are the only country that I know of that provides for taxing money earned overseas. We do, however, exempt income kept overseas. That’s why all that money is “hidden” overseas. (It was already taxed by its countries of origin, by the way.)
Get rid of extraterritorial taxation, and some of that money comes back here. As it is invested, and resulting revenues grow, our tax take will increase. You will also see fewer corporate inversions, such as Burger King going to Canada and Pfizer going to Ireland.
No money is “stolen” from the taxpayer. It is simply NOT stolen from the companies LEGALLY keeping it over there, since our confiscatory taxes are not piled on top of the taxes charged by the other countries.
Wow....I had to check and make sure I was on the right website, because for a minute there, I thought I was on DU.
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