Posted on 09/10/2014 12:20:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
During another grueling hearing on the ObamaCare rollout, the head of the Internal Revenue Service tried to offer lawmakers an assurance about the soon-to-open enrollment period.
“Whenever we can, we follow the law,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the House Ways and Means subcommittee on health on Wednesday.
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), who leads the subcommittee, immediately expressed his concern with the remarks.
“I encourage you to follow the law in all instances,” Brady said.
Koskinen, who was confirmed as head of IRS last December, has repeatedly faced lawmakers' ire over the agency's targeting of conservative groups.
Lawmakers spent a majority of Wednesday's hearing grilling Koskinen and Andy Slavitt, HealthCare.Gov's fix-it man, on how they would verify that consumers were providing correct income information as they signed up for insurance subsidies.
Koskinen, who said he’s been meeting with tech and business staff every two weeks since January, said things are “on track” to verify income for all new enrollees.
Still, Slavitt acknowledged that the administration faces a “trust gap” in ObamaCare’s second year of implementation.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) cautioned against what he described as unchecked power given to the IRS under the healthcare law. He demanded to know how the Obama administration would prevent a “Lois Lerner 2.0 situation."
“It seems to me that the IRS is just poised to go swimming in a big pool of money,” Roskam said. “Are these the same IT people that can’t find Lois Lerner’s emails or deal with her hard drives?”
Koskinen was asked if he defended Lerner, to which he replied, “No, I don’t know her."
It was Slavitt’s first public appearance since the federal government announced last week that HealthCare.gov had been hacked in July. But just one lawmaker, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), prodded Slavitt about the security breach.
Price questioned why insurance company leaders told him they had learned about the hack from media reports. Slavitt disputed the claim, saying he had personally informed a representative from the insurance association about the breach.
“Whenever I can, I pay my taxes.” Nope, that wouldn’t fly with the IRS.
John, when people start telling your auditors, “Whenever I can, I document my tax returns...trust me,” you remember you said that.
Whenever I can, I try to pay my taxes.
Does that work for you?
LOL ... there is no criminal element in government and this proves it ... LOL
And when we can’t (or don’t) we “recycle” the hard drives.
“Whenever we can...?” How would that work when I file my taxes? I will do them “whenever” I can. Which might not be ever with this “new” system used by the IRS.*
Idiot.
*kidding, Mr/s IRS person
23 posts and no one came up with the correct f/u line????
>>Whenever we can, we follow the law<<
Whenever we can’t, we don’t.
Geeze FR, we’re gettin slow on the uptake!
So when the ATF asks about the belt-fed machine gun atop your SUV, the Regime-approved response is, “Sorry, whenever I can, I follow the law. But in the case of this M-60, I couldn’t resist.”
You're right...not even a smidgen.
New nick is ‘clueless’ .. LOL
Yeah, I do the same with my tax return.....
I think he is also saying he has to follow orders from above. Sh!t rolls downhill.
“Whenever we can, and it doesn’t interfere with the agenda, we follow the law”
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Bears repeating, bolding and italicizing.
Words can be used as a sword to cut to the quick of things.
This guy is a master.. At disaster.
I am going to send in a 1040 form with the words:
“Whenever we can, we follow the law” written in sharpie in big letters diagonally over the form...
That shall be myu TAX return...
Koskinen would look good in a black S.S. uniform. He reminds me of Adolf Eichman. Eichman claimed that he was only a transportation office who followed orders.
Whenever we can, we follow the law; but when it is inconvenient, we don’t.
He is the poster child for this administration: ignorant, arrogant bureaucrat.
I couldn’t agree more and would include smug.
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