Maybe the IRS should start apologizing to folks that get audited, but "lose" their receipts due to a "computer crash."
Sorry Mr. Taxpayer for accusing you of lying and pestering you. Don't worry about those penalties and interest. We offended your sensibilites. That'll happen, right?
Of course the dems will apologize to the IRS and defend it at all costs. Ideologically they are joined at the hip, fellow travelers in the larger totalitarian scheme.
I think that was John Lewis, not Cummings. Anyone?
The republicans should say “You democrats aren’t apologizing for us. If you are, you’re going to be very busy today.”
It amazes me that there’s not one honest democrat on capital hill.
If the IRS computers were unstable enough to lose vital e-mails, then they must also have been unstable enough to lose millions of taxpayer records over the years, and the IRS’s function of collecting revenues would have been impaired.
If Congress can’t subpoena the IRS’s e-mails, then Congress should subpoena the IRS’s hard drives to be examined by experts to determine how and why they were lost.
The IRS should also subpoena the IRS’s computer staff to determine what went wrong, and it should also subpoena the IRS staff in Cincinnati where the original IRS scandal was perpetrated.
Would a defense attorney representing a person indicted for murder not raise holy hell if he found out that the prosecution had mysteriously lost vital e-mails exonerating his client?
Congress is representing US against a government that wants to destroy our country. So why aren’t the members of Congress, besides Ted Cruz, flooding the airwaves and newspapers with their righteous anger to alert our citizens as Paul Revere once did, that our enemies are on the march and we’d better fight back?
I heard 8 of 11 hard drives failed. Coincidentally, those eight were the ones that belonged to the highest ranking people in the IRS.
Pure coincidence.
BULLSH!T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cummings changed parties? R-Maryland???
Considering that Cummings was one of those involved in the targeting of Conservatives he is VERY pleased the emails are gone..I don’t need an IRS Commissioner to tell me what happened..the emails were destroyed, to protect Obama, Jarrett, the DOJ, and members of Congress who were behind the targeting..a 2 year old could figure that out
Hang them all and hang the Senators and Representatives who pressured the IRS into doing this and hang the CIC and AG and everyone else in this administration.
Hang them all for treason, conspiracy to treason, perjury, and a whole list of other crimes.
Not only are they claiming that they “lost” the emails, they are also claiming that they only keep employee emails for 6 months anyway. These lies rank right up there with “If you like your health insurance, you can keep it”.
Bring in the IT guys responsible for the backups, the managers don’t have a clue how the backup works.
ARTHUR: Listen, old crone! Unless you tell us where we can find the e-mails, my friend and I will ... we will say “Ni”!
IRS Comm’r: Do your worst!
IRS Comm’r: I have herd the Knights say “Ni”! in the night. I have herd the hideous Peng! and they have said “Nee-wum”! to my sister but still I have not revealed ...
ARTHUR: Very well, old crone. Since you will not assist us voluntarily ... “Ni”!
IRS Comm’r: No. Never. No e-mails.
ARTHUR: Ni!
BEDEVERE: Nu!
ARTHUR: No. Ni! More like this. “Ni”!
BEDEVERE: Ni, ni, ni!
ARTHUR: It’s not working.
ARTHUR: You’re not doing it properly. Ni!
BEDEVERE: Ni!
ARTHUR: That’s it. Ni! Ni!
A PASSER-BY on a horse is observing them.
ROGER: Are you saying “Ni” to that old crone, the IRS commissioner?
ARTHUR: Erm, yes.
ROGER: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say “Ni” at will to old tax ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land! nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design e-mail programs are under considerable economic stress at this point in time.
ARTHUR: Did you say e-mail?
ROGER: Yes. e-mail is my trade. I am an e-mailer. My name is Roger the e-mailer. I arrange, design, and sell e-mail programs. I did Outlook.
BEDEVERE (rather aggressively, to ROGER): Ni!
ARTHUR: No. No. No!
Does the IRS email system even work?
Here is a link to IRS employee emails: https://email-format.com/d/irs.gov/
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/about/members.htm
Cummings is not on this committee. That was the brilliant, articulate and erudite John Lewis.
An oldie but a goodie.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!