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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Oh well. Should have thought about this before you unleashed the IRS on
innocent Americans, Barry.
Mounting scandals at the Internal Revenue Service are jeopardizing critical
funding for the agency as it gears up to play a big role in President Barack
Obama’s health care law.
Obama sought a significant budget increase for the IRS for next year, when
the agency will start doling out subsidies to help people buy health
insurance on state-based exchanges. Congressional Republicans, however, see
management problems at the IRS as an opportunity to limit the agency’s
funding just as it is trying to put in place the massive new law.
Republicans have been fighting the health care law ever since Democrats
enacted it in 2010 without a single GOP vote. Unable to repeal the law, some
Republicans hope to starve it by refusing to fund its implementation.
The IRS scandals are giving them a timely excuse.
“I think it’s safe to say they’re not going to get the kind of increase
they’re asking for,” said Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., chairman of the
House appropriations subcommittee that funds the IRS.
“The question is, based on their bad behavior, are they going to end up
with less money?” Crenshaw said.
Last month, the IRS was rocked by revelations that agents had targeted tea
party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny when the groups
applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections. A few
weeks later, an inspector general’s report said that the agency had spent
lavishly on employee conferences during the same time period.
From 2010 through 2012, the IRS spent nearly $50 million on employee
conferences. In 2010, the agency used money that had been budgeted to hire
enforcement agents to instead help pay for one conference that cost $4.1
million, according to the watchdog’s report.
You know who the bad guy is in this Obama scandal? Why, Republicans, of
course.
“We are working to get to the bottom of what happened at the IRS, hold the
responsible parties accountable, make sure it cannot happen again, and
restore public trust and confidence in the IRS and its ability to administer
the tax code fairly and efficiently,” said White House spokeswoman Amy
Brundage.
“For years Republicans in Congress have made repeated attempts to stop and
slow down the Affordable Care Act. This is just the latest attempt to put up
roadblocks to implementing the law,” Brundage said. “The health law is
the law of the land, and we are working to implement it well, so millions of
Americans will have access to affordable and quality insurance.”
They’re working to get to the bottom of Obama’s IRS scandal? Really? |
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