Posted on 05/07/2015 9:45:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
According to a report issued by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the IRS allowed 960 out of 1,580 employees—or 61 percent—who willfully cheated on their taxes to continue working there after the misconduct was discovered. Most employees received less penalties such as counseling, reprimands, or suspensions. […]
The report further stated that it could discern no consistent pattern to explain why certain employees had their penalties mitigated, while some were repeat offenders. …
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From my experience with these situations at IRS, personnel actions generally were in inverse ratio to the persons pay grade. If a GS 5 employee made a false IRS return, they would be canned. If a GS 15 did the same thing, they perhaps would get a short suspension. If a person in the senior ranks got caught, the agency would almost apologize for bothering them.
Either they know too much, or are used for violence
and further criminality against the American People.
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. ... If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
— Louis D. Brandeis, From his dissent in the case “Olmstead v. United States”, 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928)
We have all known for a long time that the government operates under the principle of “Rules for thee but not for me.”
This is an example of what I brought up on another thread American’s growing lack of ethics and personal responsibility. Cheat is now excepted in every field and every endeavor. Cheating is cheating rather it is small or large. The lack of personal responsibility I’ve seen it’s acceptance on every level even here. Some business cheats people out of money, well its the governments fault because of the way the laws are written or enforced. A favorite politician gets caught, well the other side does stuff twice as bad and no one says nothing and so on and so on. In fact that ethics doesn’t seem to matter to so many is almost as egregious as the cheating.
Just report them as Tea Party members and they will be edited, audited, visited by masked “agents” immediately.
This is how the gubmit prevents its employees from going public with corruption and other illegal acts. KEEP THEM ON THE PAYROLL! Lois Lerner is collecting her pension!
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