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Old 07-10-2014, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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If you want the IRS to crack down on those things, then you have to invest more in the IRS. For every dollar we spend on the IRS, we get ten dollars back because you have to pay people to investigate these issues. If we don't have the people to investigate these issues, then people get away with it.
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Old 07-10-2014, 01:59 PM
 
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How much birth control could a half a trillion dollars paid for over the last 5 years? Why is it that private industry must pay for things when the government refuses to simply get it's own house in order?
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Old 07-10-2014, 02:00 PM
 
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If you want the IRS to crack down on those things, then you have to invest more in the IRS. For every dollar we spend on the IRS, we get ten dollars back because you have to pay people to investigate these issues. If we don't have the people to investigate these issues, then people get away with it.
Someone has already investigated them or we wouldn't know about them.
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Old 07-10-2014, 02:03 PM
 
Location: NJ
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Hope that makes the news obama watches!!!!!

there is the 3+ billion he wants for the imigration response.
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Old 07-10-2014, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Pa
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Maybe if the Tax codes weren't ridiculously complex less mistakes would happen?
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Old 07-10-2014, 02:17 PM
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If you want the IRS to crack down on those things, then you have to invest more in the IRS. For every dollar we spend on the IRS, we get ten dollars back because you have to pay people to investigate these issues. If we don't have the people to investigate these issues, then people get away with it.
Riiiight........because the more money we throw at them, the more efficient they become.

I get it now.

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Old 07-10-2014, 02:33 PM
 
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Everyone's favorite alphabet agency, the IRS, is back in the news for their financial savvy.

It seems Obama's watchdog -- err, the Internal Revenue Service -- has been making the news again, this time for making HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS in improper payments over the last 5 years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax credits for families that don't qualify. Medicare payments for treatments that might not be necessary. Unemployment benefits for people who are secretly working. Federal agencies reported making $100 billion in payments last year to people who may not have been entitled to receive them.

Congressional investigators say the figure could be even higher.

"The amounts here are absolutely staggering," said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. "It's over $100 billion each of the last five years. That's a staggering half a trillion dollars in improper payments."


Given that this is the agency that spawned Lois "Slow" Lerner and her magical computer problems, I cannot say this shocks me. Government at its best is ineffecient. Bigger government is just more ineffecient.

Improper payments by federal government top $100B
GAO finds billions in wasteful, duplicative federal spending | TheHill
GAO Report Blasts $8.2 Billion Obamacare Boondoggle
GAO Details Billions in Federal Waste --- Report Obtained by Fox News | Fox News

So $100 billion just from over payments and then almost a hundred billion more in overlapping federal programs and agencies, and our government, i.e. Obama, says he cannot find anywhere to cut $3.7 billion in sending?

The president and congress should work together to cut this wasteful spending, but we are dealing with people that refuse to do what's right for the people.
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Old 07-10-2014, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Alameda, CA
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Everyone's favorite alphabet agency, the IRS, is back in the news for their financial savvy.

It seems Obama's watchdog -- err, the Internal Revenue Service -- has been making the news again, this time for making HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS in improper payments over the last 5 years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax credits for families that don't qualify. Medicare payments for treatments that might not be necessary. Unemployment benefits for people who are secretly working. Federal agencies reported making $100 billion in payments last year to people who may not have been entitled to receive them.

Congressional investigators say the figure could be even higher.

"The amounts here are absolutely staggering," said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. "It's over $100 billion each of the last five years. That's a staggering half a trillion dollars in improper payments."


Given that this is the agency that spawned Lois "Slow" Lerner and her magical computer problems, I cannot say this shocks me. Government at its best is ineffecient. Bigger government is just more ineffecient.

Improper payments by federal government top $100B
Where in this article does it say that it is the IRS that has made 100 billion in improper payments per year for the last 5 years.

I think perhaps you misread the article.
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Old 07-10-2014, 02:44 PM
 
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Where in this article does it say that it is the IRS that has made 100 billion in improper payments per year for the last 5 years.

I think perhaps you misread the article.
"It's over $100 billion each of the last five years. That's a staggering half a trillion dollars in improper payments."
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Old 07-10-2014, 02:46 PM
 
Location: Alameda, CA
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"It's over $100 billion each of the last five years. That's a staggering half a trillion dollars in improper payments."
Those 100 billion in payments were not by the IRS alone, according to the article.
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