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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.
how does hurting the tax collecters harm corruption?
i fail to see how gutting the budget of the governments tax collection agency is going to solve the countries money troubles
Are you serious? The IRS is obviously too corrupt to wield the power that it does.
you just hate paying taxes.
besides corruptions needs to be eliminated by working within the system.
I'm with you on this one - I'd like to see the government numbers on estimates of taxes not paid or in default.
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!
Are you serious? The IRS is obviously too corrupt to wield the power that it does.
so giving a agency less money that it asked for in order to do it's basic job somehow removes corruption?
Corruption is not curtailed or corrected by agency cuts. It feels good, but not all that effective.
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.
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 .
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.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.
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.
i fail to see how gutting the budget of the governments tax collection agency is going to solve the countries money troubles
It's because Obama's black, huh? Is that what's next?
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