Can we collectively fire our tax dollars and pray they find better employment?

[BaiHu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/04/24/irs-issued-billions-in-improper-refunds-report-says/


The Internal Revenue Service issued more than $11 billion in improper payments through its Earned Income Tax Credit program last year, according to an inspector general’s report released this week.

Treasury Department deputy inspector general Michael McKenney found that the IRS has failed to comply for two consecutive years with the Improper Payments Elimination Act, which President Obama signed in 2010. The law requires federal agencies to reduce erroneous payments to a rate of less than 10 percent.

The IRS estimates that at least 21 percent of its EITC payments in 2012 were faulty. That rate showed a decline compared to the previous nine years, but improper payments over the same period increased about 22 percent, rising to at least $11.6 billion, according to the inspector general’s report.

Overall, the agency “has made little improvement in reducing EITC improper payments,” the report said.

[BaiHu]

Just to add more of our miserable tax dollars to the pyre, we get to see how the other half live....on our tax dollars.


Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.
The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Obama administration and other top lawmakers — are extraordinarily sensitive, with both sides acutely aware of the potential for political fallout from giving carve-outs from the hugely controversial law to 535 lawmakers and thousands of their aides. Discussions have stretched out for months, sources said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/obamacare-exemption-lawmakers-aides-90610.html


The chief of the FAA told Congress today that Washington-area airports will largely escape the effects of the air traffic controller furloughs — a blessing for lawmakers who fly out of the nation’s capitol.
Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, told a congressional panel that the Washington region’s airports are spaced out enough and have enough spare capacity that furloughs to air traffic controllers won’t hurt as much here.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/apr/24/washington-airports-spared-sequester-impacts/

[Corlissimo]

Just to add more of our miserable tax dollars to the pyre, we get to see how the other half live....on our tax dollars.



http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/obamacare-exemption-lawmakers-aides-90610.html



http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/apr/24/washington-airports-spared-sequester-impacts/

Hmmm... next thing you know all of the plebes & peasants (i.e. "We the People") will be told to just eat cake. :rolleyes:

[Drang]

Hmmm... next thing you know all of the plebes & peasants (i.e. "We the People") will be told to just eat cake. :rolleyes:

Don't you know anything? Cake's not good for you! Eat your veggies!

[Corlissimo]

Don't you know anything? Cake's not good for you! Eat your veggies!

I stand corrected. But the veggies can only be the GMO/Monsanto stuff add I'm sure all the rest will be outlawed soon too.

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