An item on Fox News.com this morning points out a problem in our system of governance that likely cannot be really fixed, but does need some kind of adjustment. And, once again, the issue involves the IRS.
According to Fox, “House Republicans want the IRS to pay for targeting political groups and are pushing legislation that would cut the tax collecting agency’s budget by $3 billion -- nearly a quarter of what it received last fiscal year.
The cuts aren’t sitting well with the National Treasury Employees Union which represents 150,000 employees in 31 agencies and departments.
Union President, Colleen Kelley, “argues that the tax agency should not be penalized because a May 14 audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration “found no evidence of intentional wrongdoing or political motivation on the part of IRS employees in the tax-exempt division.”
Now, I remember watching the televised IRS hearings, and when the subject of wrongdoing or political motivation was concerned, Inspector General, J. Russell George, specifically stated that his departmental audit wasn’t charged with seeking information regarding any specific employee’s performance. Consequently, since he wasn’t looking for evidence regarding any individuals behavior, obviously none was found.
I mention the forgoing because, regardless of what finally happens with budget cuts, employee compensation or union bargaining, there’s something horrendously wrong with the entire IRS from top to bottom. And that’s the flaw in our system. Because for anything else but government services, customers can turn to competition, which in a case like this would solve the problem immediately, whereas folks would go somewhere else to conduct their business.
So here we are, faced with incredible incompetence and the absolute worst in job performance, total mismanagement and misdirected departmental goals and objectives. And yet we’re forced to not only wait while a bunch of incompetents tries to weasel their way out of a horrendous quagmire they created themselves, but there’s a very good chance that this band of lying bozo’s won’t lose any jobs, income or bonuses in spite of it.
On the other hand though, if the IRS were a real business having to provide acceptable customer service, I wouldn’t be sitting here typing about them at all, because they'd have long ago been forced out of existence.
Now, I don’t know what the answer is, and I’m certainly not suggesting opening a competitive government. But, I think the time’s come that a flat tax be enacted and the IRS cut to about 10% of its present size and structure with practically no responsibility whatsoever.
That’s it for today folks.
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