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Furious Over Scandals, House Guts IRS Budget, Blocks Performance Bonuses
Daily Caller ^ | Tristyn Bloom

Posted on 07/16/2014 7:40:44 PM PDT by Nachum

The House voted to block performance bonuses for senior Internal Revenue Service executives Wednesday, The Hill reported. “Giving out bonuses is ludicrous and amounts to a slap in the face to the American public,” said Rep. Paul Gosar, who introduced the amendment. “They should not be given performance awards in the wake of one of the largest scandals in recent history.” The amendment passed by a vote of 282-138-1, with only Democrats voting against it. “To suggest and paint with a broad brush the whole IRS and say that everyone there at the senior level is not worthy of a

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KEYWORDS: furious; guts; house; scandals
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1 posted on 07/16/2014 7:40:44 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Total budget of $13 billion a llllllllll the way down to $12 billion.

Ohhhhh, sure, that’s…..crippling…?

Meh.


2 posted on 07/16/2014 7:44:09 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Nachum

Works for me.

In fact, I’d like to see them go away (fat chance).


3 posted on 07/16/2014 7:45:01 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

 

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

 

http://www.nachumlist.com/

 

4 posted on 07/16/2014 7:45:06 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum
The Jerk
5 posted on 07/16/2014 7:46:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: gaijin

an entity demonstrably aggressive to citizens for partisan reasons:

SHOULD they have guns?

I’d say a good start is the billion penalty and pull ALL of their guns.

All of them.

Cuz right now there’s no incentive TO BE NICE.


6 posted on 07/16/2014 7:46:15 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

They’ll restore it later. This is pure theater.


7 posted on 07/16/2014 7:47:15 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Nachum
The amendment passed by a vote of 282-138-1, with only Democrats voting against it.

Only Democrats voting against it. WHAT a surprise.

8 posted on 07/16/2014 7:48:31 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: gaijin

It’s about time they did SOMETHING. Now if they would just defund the parties and vacations for the royal family, that would be peachy.


9 posted on 07/16/2014 7:49:06 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Cboldt

It’s one of those ‘reduction in future increases’ fake cut.

The VA admins that got paid bonuses for their bogus record keeping should be prosecuted. DOJ won’t touch them either.


10 posted on 07/16/2014 7:51:46 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Nachum

A step in the right direction


11 posted on 07/16/2014 7:53:13 PM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: Nachum
Hilda Solis was just voted onto the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

-PJ

12 posted on 07/16/2014 7:54:59 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Nachum
A few months ago it was every week. Now we are up to every day there is another scandal, more corruption. I wonder what we will get tomorrow....How about this?


13 posted on 07/16/2014 7:56:39 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Cboldt
They’ll restore it later. This is pure theater.

If that is the case we need to replace "they ".

14 posted on 07/16/2014 8:06:00 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Nachum

Okay we’ll give you a tick for that guys. Now onto impeachment proceedings if you want bonus points


15 posted on 07/16/2014 8:14:19 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Nachum

Now do the same to the DHS and DOJ budgets.


16 posted on 07/16/2014 8:15:43 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

The DHS budget is in trouble right now.


17 posted on 07/16/2014 8:17:12 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Simply another GOP dog and pony show. ALL of the money (and probably some extra) will be restored in conference when Harry Reid refuses to accept ANY cuts at all in anything, and the cowardly GOP House will quietly acquiesce, yet again for the umpteenth time.


18 posted on 07/16/2014 8:29:34 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Nachum

It’s about time that they started using the POWER of the PURSE!


19 posted on 07/16/2014 8:35:38 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: Nachum

end these bonuses for all govt employees.


20 posted on 07/16/2014 8:42:14 PM PDT by RginTN
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