Posted on 12/18/2014 12:49:09 PM PST by US Navy Vet
The IRS is considering its own temporary shutdown due to recent budget cuts enacted by Congress, its chief said Thursday.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said furloughs — forced unpaid days off for employees as part of an IRS closure — is one idea reluctantly being tossed about to save money, though they are hoping they will not have to go there.
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“There is no way we can say right now that that won’t happen,” Koskinen told reporters at a press conference on the upcoming tax season. “Again, I would stress that would be the last option.”
(Also on POLITICO: IRS to freeze hiring, cut enforcement)
He said a one-day closure would save an estimated $29 million.
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Some how I have trouble summoning up sympathy for John Koskinen and his band of lying, blackmailing, leftist thieves.
Christmas might be EXTRA special this year...
The best part of a flat tax would be firing every single one of those fascists.
Lol, no one cares.
How old is that guy, anyway?
I had his brother as an engineering prof in college....in the late 1960s...
Seriously, cutting back the IRS budget like Congress just did, just might get some of the underlings to start blowing the whistle on management’s efforts to hinder conservative groups.
If you watched management conduct a witch hunt against conservatives and now your own paycheck is getting cut, you just might consider getting even with the management that caused the budget cuts out of Congress.
The power of the purse is considerable, and I think we’re going to see it used a lot in the next year. Employees at the EPA and the Dep’t of Justice should also be concerned.
I am trying to feel any sense of pity or sadness, but I just cannot muster anything but giddiness.
Aw, dat’s tough. I’m cryin’ here.
I feel that if the IRS needs to shut down, it may be time for a flat tax. Easy billing, easy payments, and no need for them to return to work.
Wow, another good news story. Cool...
How long can we keep the IRS shut down?
In the meantime, droves of IRS employees are fleeing by transferring to other agencies, leaving behind the Lois Lerner types.
They evidently were not doing a typically really rotten job on the first, so they want to give them the second to screw up also. This is The Peter Principle dimocrat style.
We need to chain the doors shut.
“Pssst, Lois. You don't haf to tell zeez svine anysing. Chust remember zot Herr Obama und I haf your beck.” But if you screw up, bitte remember zot ve know vere you lif!”
The IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney.
The auditor said, 'Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you win money gambling.
I'm not sure the IRS finds that believable.'
I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it,' says Grandpa. 'How about a demonstration?'
The auditor thinks for a moment and said, 'Okay. Go ahead.'
Grandpa says, 'I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.'
The auditor thinks a moment and says, 'It's a bet....’
Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it.
The auditor's jaw drops.
Grandpa says, 'Now, I'll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.'
Now the auditor can tell Grandpa isn’t blind, so he takes the bet.
Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye.
The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with grandpa's attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.
'Want to go double or nothing' Grandpa asks? 'I'll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.'>[? The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there's no way this old guy could possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again.
Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor's desk.
The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win.
But Grandpa's own attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.
'Are you okay?' the auditor asks.
'Not really,' says the attorney. 'This morning, when Grandpa told me he'd been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and piss all over your desk and that you'd be happy about it!'
Al Sharpton is good for about 20% of that, just pick a few more reverends and you will pay for it all.
Oldie but a goodie!
Yep!!
So the spoiled brats are gonna hold their breath until they get their way, eh? I say take the gas pipe you motherf***ers.
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