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House GOP votes to gut IRS budget

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And the Leftists claim that the GOP doesn't do anything! They did something and I think it's great. I think this is what the folks who represent the people are supposed to do.

Late Tuesday night, the House of Representatives voted to cut 13 percent from the Internal Revenue Service’s budget. Two proposals submitted by Republican legislators in the House were quickly passed by voice vote, resulting in a cut of $1.14 billion from the tax collection agency’s enforcement budget.

“The changes would leave the IRS with a budget of $9.8 billion for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, 13 percent below this year’s funding level and 21 percent below the administration’s request,” Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

House GOP votes to gut IRS budget « Hot Air
 
And the Leftists claim that the GOP doesn't do anything! They did something and I think it's great. I think this is what the folks who represent the people are supposed to do.

Not good to piss off the person with the checkbook.
 
i fail to see how gutting the budget of the governments tax collection agency is going to solve the countries money troubles

What about the country's corruption troubles? I think that takes priority over anything else.
 
i fail to see how gutting the budget of the governments tax collection agency is going to solve the countries money troubles

I'm with you on this one - I'd like to see the government numbers on estimates of taxes not paid or in default.
 
I love how it was a voice vote, in other words no record for when campaign season is in full swing. Just reinforced the "phony scandal" bit.
 
True, but that's neither here, nor there.



Working within the system?!? :lamo

The head honcho of the IRS is a part of the corruption!

so giving a agency less money that it asked for in order to do it's basic job somehow removes corruption?
 
Are you serious? The IRS is obviously too corrupt to wield the power that it does.

Corruption is not curtailed or corrected by agency cuts. It feels good, but not all that effective.
 
so giving a agency less money that it asked for in order to do it's basic job somehow removes corruption?

Well, the enforcement arm of the government refuses to investigate the corruption. Someone has to do something.

The system isn't going to fix itself. That's obvious from all the evidence that the IRS, itself, has destroyed.

Personally, I think that every salary across the board at IRS should be cut by 50% and then see who starts talking.
 
Thanks, but that wasn't the question. What is the estimate of tax revenue not collected or paid? That is, after all, what the IRS enforcement budget is all about, isn't it?

Obviously it's much lower than at any other time in history. The revenue increase didn't occur because of our booming economy.
 
Obviously it's much lower than at any other time in history. The revenue increase didn't occur because of our booming economy.

Well, the revenues are higher because in simple numbers more people are working than ever before, the payroll tax holiday ended, tax increases on those making more than $250,000 took effect, etc. That doesn't mean that more people aren't cheating on their taxes or avoiding paying entirely - probably more are, with taxes higher.
 
What's happening so far isn't working.

Since there aren't enough agents to catch tax-cheats off-shore and on-shore non-profit liars.
Tax cuts and loopholes are a good way to keep the deficit artificially high and then blame Obama for the high deficit. This is still Cantor's false-equivalency running the House .
 
Since there aren't enough agents to catch tax-cheats off-shore and on-shore non-profit liars.
Tax cuts and loopholes are a good way to keep the deficit artificially high and then blame Obama for the high deficit. This is still Cantor's false-equivalency running the House .

It's because Obama's black, huh? Is that what's next?
 
And the Leftists claim that the GOP doesn't do anything! They did something and I think it's great. I think this is what the folks who represent the people are supposed to do.

While I$$A and company waste more millions with their kangaroo courts .
 
And the Leftists claim that the GOP doesn't do anything! They did something and I think it's great. I think this is what the folks who represent the people are supposed to do.
That is not sufficient. 90% and start selling off the buildings.

Or reduce everyone's pay by 50%.
 
i fail to see how gutting the budget of the governments tax collection agency is going to solve the countries money troubles

The different branches of the government use what power the Constitution gives them to use to exert influence (which what this is) and yes, even punish (which is not what this is). Some branches even exert power and influence that the Constitution does not give them, as the SCOTUS has pointed out thirteen times in 9-0 decisions that Obama has done. This power is not only in the Constitution, but it is a power given SOLELY to the US House of Representatives - Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1 - All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives. The power of the purse resides with the House.

Given that the IRS, the DOJ and the Obama Administration as a whole are doing everything they can do to hinder the Congressional investigations, the House of Representatives has no option but to exercise the power granted them under the Constitution.

Hence my comment - Not good to piss off the person with the checkbook.
 
It's because Obama's black, huh? Is that what's next?

It looks like derailing your own thread is next with that post. Stay focused--as the USA grows in taxpayers and tax cheats, it makes perfect sense to cut the IRS budget 13% so those agents can join the rest who work for money launderers and tax cheats. Even Romney and Sen. Coburn agree on closing tax loopholes for the uber-rich. Why don't you ?
 
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