by Jane Richey | Jun 14, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed in a recently released audit report that in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000 Internal Revenue Service employees misused government charge cards issued by Citibank. The report said that during the...
by Jane Richey | Jun 14, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The IRS is looking to hire a “diversity and inclusion” specialist, with a minimum salary of $123,758 a year.The opening for a full-time “Supervisory Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” at the agency’s national headquarters in Washington, D.C. was announced on June 11...
by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The Energy Department has $9 million more taxpayer dollars to spend on projects that may make a very expensive car less expensive and more acceptable to consumers. The latest round of funding is intended to accelerate the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
In a belated and incomplete response to the House Ways and Means Committee’s request for Internal Revenue Service documents relating to the agency’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups for heightened scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, Acting...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2013 | Health Care
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that health insurance premiums will go up under Obamacare because people who did not buy insurance before, and thus had no premium at all, will now be forced to buy insurance. She also urged people...
