red states rule
06-26-2013, 02:55 AM
Once again we have another example on how Federal workers spend your tax dollars. As you read this, remember how Dems and those that support them, want MORE of your money to spend
WASHINGTON — Poor oversight by the Internal Revenue Service allowed workers to use agency credit cards to buy wine for an expensive luncheon, dorky swag for managers’ meetings and, for one employee, romance novels and diet pills, an agency watchdog said Tuesday.
Two IRS credit cards were used to buy online pornography, though the employees said the cards were stolen. One of the workers reported five agency credit cards lost or stolen.
IRS employees used agency credit cards to make more than 273,000 purchases totaling nearly $108 million in 2010 and 2011, according to the report by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.
The vast majority of those purchases were legitimate, the report said. However, the report said the IRS has inadequate controls to prevent inappropriate purchases.
They were stolen. That’s the ticket! Aww, yeah:
Among other “improper” purchases identified by the inspector general:
– $3,152 to rent a popcorn machine and to buy prizes for an employee event, including bandanas, stuffed animals, sunglasses and stovepipe hats.
– $418 for novelty decorations and swag at managers’ meetings, including kazoos, bathtub toys and “Thomas the Tank Engine” wristbands.
– $119 for Nerf footballs that were never used and were found stored in a filing cabinet.
Liberals scoff that waste/fraud/abuse is a nothingburger because it’s such a small percentage of the overall budget that fixing all of it wouldn’t solve our long-term problems. First, that’s an indictment of the ridiculous size of the entire budget, and second, there’s something perverse about using the sheer size of the giant, wasteful budget you’ve created to excuse away the level of waste and fraud it allows. And, third, how many Americans do you think are spending a couple grand for a popcorn machine in bad economic times—or any times for that matter? I’m sure many of them would like to, but most of them don’t have thousands to drop on movie-theater quality popcorn while the people in charge of taking their hard-earned money from them are partying it up with said money. It’s amazing what we can do when we pool resources, huh? Government is just a word for things we do together. Like, buy popcorn machines with everyone’s money.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/25/inspector-general-irs-credit-cards-used-for-booze-and-porn/
WASHINGTON — Poor oversight by the Internal Revenue Service allowed workers to use agency credit cards to buy wine for an expensive luncheon, dorky swag for managers’ meetings and, for one employee, romance novels and diet pills, an agency watchdog said Tuesday.
Two IRS credit cards were used to buy online pornography, though the employees said the cards were stolen. One of the workers reported five agency credit cards lost or stolen.
IRS employees used agency credit cards to make more than 273,000 purchases totaling nearly $108 million in 2010 and 2011, according to the report by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.
The vast majority of those purchases were legitimate, the report said. However, the report said the IRS has inadequate controls to prevent inappropriate purchases.
They were stolen. That’s the ticket! Aww, yeah:
Among other “improper” purchases identified by the inspector general:
– $3,152 to rent a popcorn machine and to buy prizes for an employee event, including bandanas, stuffed animals, sunglasses and stovepipe hats.
– $418 for novelty decorations and swag at managers’ meetings, including kazoos, bathtub toys and “Thomas the Tank Engine” wristbands.
– $119 for Nerf footballs that were never used and were found stored in a filing cabinet.
Liberals scoff that waste/fraud/abuse is a nothingburger because it’s such a small percentage of the overall budget that fixing all of it wouldn’t solve our long-term problems. First, that’s an indictment of the ridiculous size of the entire budget, and second, there’s something perverse about using the sheer size of the giant, wasteful budget you’ve created to excuse away the level of waste and fraud it allows. And, third, how many Americans do you think are spending a couple grand for a popcorn machine in bad economic times—or any times for that matter? I’m sure many of them would like to, but most of them don’t have thousands to drop on movie-theater quality popcorn while the people in charge of taking their hard-earned money from them are partying it up with said money. It’s amazing what we can do when we pool resources, huh? Government is just a word for things we do together. Like, buy popcorn machines with everyone’s money.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/25/inspector-general-irs-credit-cards-used-for-booze-and-porn/