by Jane Richey | Aug 3, 2013 | Health Care
The House voted on August 2nd to prevent the IRS from enforcing any aspect of ObamaCare, a bill meant to exact revenge against an agency that Republicans say is incapable of neutral enforcement of the law. Members approved the Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act in...
by Jane Richey | Aug 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Federal employees were paid more than $155 million of taxpayer dollars in 2011 for spending more than 3.4 million hours of “official time” on labor union activities that fell outside their assigned government duties, according to a survey by the Office of...
by Jane Richey | Jul 27, 2013 | Health Care
Even though they’ll be charged with enforcing its mandates, employees of the Internal Revenue Service are petitioning Congress to be exempted from Obamacare. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents employees of the IRS and several other federal...
by Jane Richey | Jun 24, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). That was not the only...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
One senator says the Internal Revenue Service is set to pay $70 million in bonuses for employees, over the objections of a White House mandate for all agencies to cancel discretionary spending — specifically, bonuses — due to looming automatic budget cuts. The news...
