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Posted: 6/17/2014 9:17:11 AM EDT
How does a group of Washington DC Congressmen tell an agency, FUCK YOU, they cut the Agency budget by 15%.
Congress Cuts IRS Budget As Punishment The Internal Revenue Service is about to get slapped with a harsh payback for messing around with conservative groups, blowing wads of tax dollars on employee conferences and helping implement Obamacare. The House Appropriations Committee is set to OK an IRS budget of $10.9 billion, $1.5 billion under President Obama's request for fiscal year 2015, reducing the agency's budget to 2008 levels. |
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Make it 75% and throw in some jail time.
Then I'd call it good. |
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Don't worry , they will just increase the taxes on the working class to get that 15% back.
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That would be a good start. Watch cry baby boner crumble under intense negotiations and wind up with a 30% increase.
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It's a start. Cut all their bonuses and hang some of them publicly and I'll be a little more pleased.
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It should be cut by 90% since 90% of the IRS is non-essential personnel. |
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1) Defund the Education Dept
2) Cut the Energy Dept budget 50% 3) Cut the EPA budget 75% 4) Cut the White House budget 25% Cut the nearly $1 trillion added to the budget after the porkulus fiasco Cut the welfare budget 20% and 5% a year more for the next ten years. |
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I'll believe it when I see it . . . . regardless , it's just a miniscule step in the right direction
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Why cut it as punishment?
Cut it for cause. It's a bloated, black hole, money pit agency. Go to flat tax with no loopholes and get rid of 99% of it. |
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so they're getting a 10% increase in next year budget instead of 25%
baseline budgets, how do they work.... |
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The agency has always felt GOP fire, but the controversies over probing Tea Party and conservative groups, lavish spending on conventions and bonuses and a new push to re-evaluate the tax exempt status of political groups has the Republican-controlled House on the war path - one the Democratically-controlled Senate isn't expected to follow when it takes up the same spending bill next week. View Quote Santa Claus isn't real. However, the Senate is. |
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How will they afford the exchange back up servers they sorely need?
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Don't worry, that 15% will be the computers with all the records on them.
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Good on the House Appropriators. Senate will put it back though... unless they know what's good for them.
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Showmanship.At the end of the day, it will not be cut. I'd bet 50 rounds of 22LR. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Good on the House Appropriators. Senate will put it back though... unless they know what's good for them. Showmanship.At the end of the day, it will not be cut. I'd bet 50 rounds of 22LR. At the end of the day the budget will increase. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Does this mean they will have to turn in their M9s and all that ammo.?
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This means they'll wind up losing even more of Lois Lerner's e-mails though!
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Actually they should demand Zero Based Budgeting and Full House of Rep. Congressional Approval for Appropriations every three years, starting with 2015.
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Nice play! Who's going to argue against a cut in the IRS budget!
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Is it an actual "cut" or a decrease in projected growth? DC is the only place where spending more in a year than the previous year can be considered a budget "cut." FBHO. |
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But how are they supposed to upgrade their email servers now? I guess we'll be having more "lost" emails.
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Is it an actual "cut" or a decrease in projected growth? DC is the only place where spending more in a year than the previous year can be considered a budget "cut." FBHO. View Quote According to the quote in the OP it's a reduction back to 2008 funding levels. So that would be a cut. |
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It's a good start.
I'd like it to be an 80% across the board cut for alphabet agencies and the complete elimination of at least two dozen more from the budget. |
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The vote doesn't matter. There hasn't been a budget passed since Chicago Jesus took office.It's all been by continuing resolutions - almost no accountability for anyone. Cut the IRS budget by 100% and have a national sales tax. Multiple problems solved.
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15% ?!! That's laughable.
So, all of upper management will still get their bonuses and maybe a few lower rung people don't get hired. Big Deal! Maybe 1 less Hawaiian vacation. 15% is nothing. |
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The vote doesn't matter. There hasn't been a budget passed since Chicago Jesus took office.It's all been by continuing resolutions - almost no accountability for anyone. Cut the IRS budget by 100% and have a national sales tax. Multiple problems solved. View Quote But they PROMISED to pass a budget this time... |
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Quoted: This. Dingy Hairy will never let that come up for a vote. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Will go nowhere. This. Dingy Hairy will never let that come up for a vote. |
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Make it 75% and throw in some jail time. Then I'd call it good. View Quote Anyone who thinks the real players/ power brokers in that racket are going to be affected is deluding themselves. A server will crash & conveniently/accidentally "lose" the potentially incriminating email records of a higher up, but damned if they couldn't dig up someones 80's-era tax records. Gut it - the whole tax system, the IRS, all of it. Re-write our tax system. Anything else is smoke/mirrors/window dressing. |
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According to the quote in the OP it's a reduction back to 2008 funding levels. So that would be a cut. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Is it an actual "cut" or a decrease in projected growth? DC is the only place where spending more in a year than the previous year can be considered a budget "cut." FBHO. According to the quote in the OP it's a reduction back to 2008 funding levels. So that would be a cut. Mr Big Ears won't sign it... |
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