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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.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:19:06 AM EDT
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Good. Cut it more. We don't need the IRS.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:19:07 AM EDT
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Make it 75% and throw in some jail time.
Then I'd call it good.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:19:36 AM EDT
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Grumpy cat says GOOD!!
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:20:14 AM EDT
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100% and Fair Tax....



 
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:20:38 AM EDT
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Don't worry , they will just increase the taxes on the working class to get that 15% back.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:20:40 AM EDT
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I would like to add the employees found to have been involved in deceptive activites be made to re-pay all salaries and benefits, before the incarceration.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:20:43 AM EDT
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Drop in the bucket.

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Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:21:05 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:21:08 AM EDT
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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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Every avalanche starts out with a few pebbles.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:22:25 AM EDT
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House bills = 0% chance of becoming reality.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:24:07 AM EDT
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Warning shot for 2015 Congressional budget season.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:28:21 AM EDT
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and again, why does ANY .gov employee get a "bonus"?
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:35:10 AM EDT
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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.

Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:39:17 AM EDT
[#16]
I'll believe it when I see it . . . . regardless , it's just a miniscule step in the right direction
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:41:34 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:43:38 AM EDT
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so they're getting a 10% increase in next year budget instead of 25%

baseline budgets, how do they work....
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:45:38 AM EDT
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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.
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Santa Claus isn't real.  However, the Senate is.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:46:29 AM EDT
[#20]
Cut the other 85%
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:50:33 AM EDT
[#21]
15%? That's cute...
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:53:21 AM EDT
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How will they afford the exchange back up servers they sorely need?
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:55:04 AM EDT
[#23]
Don't worry, that 15% will be the computers with all the records on them.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 9:55:38 AM EDT
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Good on the House Appropriators.  Senate will put it back though... unless they know what's good for them.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:07:05 AM EDT
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Showmanship.At the end of the day, it will not be cut. I'd bet 50 rounds of 22LR.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:11:11 AM EDT
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That's how it's usually done......
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:33:39 AM EDT
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Showmanship.At the end of the day, it will not be cut. I'd bet 50 rounds of 22LR.
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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.

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Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:38:14 AM EDT
[#28]
Does this mean they will have to turn in their M9s and all that ammo.?  
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:39:57 AM EDT
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This means they'll wind up losing even more of Lois Lerner's e-mails though!
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:40:40 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:40:59 AM EDT
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Nice play!  Who's going to argue against a cut in the IRS budget!
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Lots of people need to be fired and/or jailed.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:43:18 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:44:56 AM EDT
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But how are they supposed to upgrade their email servers now?  I guess we'll be having more "lost" emails.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:48:07 AM EDT
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Is it an actual "cut" or a decrease in projected growth?

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FBHO.
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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.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 10:57:46 AM EDT
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Cut 50% budget, pay and staffing

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Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:01:33 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:11:20 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:23:56 AM EDT
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This.  It won't go anywhere, but this is a very un-GOP-like smart PR move. Everyone (except the full-on pinkos) hates the IRS.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:24:04 AM EDT
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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.

 
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:24:33 AM EDT
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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.

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But they PROMISED to pass a budget this time...
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:24:45 AM EDT
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Will go nowhere.
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:26:36 AM EDT
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That isn't how it works...
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:26:41 AM EDT
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This. Dingy Hairy will never let that come up for a vote.
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Will go nowhere.

This. Dingy Hairy will never let that come up for a vote.
Yep. Hopefully they won't cave with future funding bills either. Hell, it doesn't go nearly far enough.





 
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 11:30:07 AM EDT
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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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They could neck beard some of that ammo they've been buying up!
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 12:16:18 PM EDT
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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.
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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...
Link Posted: 6/17/2014 12:18:09 PM EDT
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It's the only way anything will get fixed.  Well, for the better anyways.
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Warning shot for 2015 Congressional budget season.
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House bills = 0% chance of becoming reality.


Warning shot for 2015 Congressional budget season.


Warning shots don't really mean shit.
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