IRS employees rebelling under double standard »

Posted By k9kssr 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News

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Unlike in most disputes, I’ m actually more sympathetic to the union argument here. The employees of the IRS have a stringent set of rules that they must follow or lose their jobs. If they forget to report even a few hundred dollars of income on their return or file late, they’ ll also be filing for unemployment. Under those conditions, one can understand the demoralizing impact of reporting to a Treasury Secretary who didn’ t bother to pay his taxes for years (via QandO ):

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FTA: Our members are upset and angry,” said Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, referring to concern bubbling up within the IRS over unusually strict rules that can cost agents their jobs if they make a mistake.
In some cases, IRS employees have lost jobs for simply filing a late return or failing to report a few hundred dollars of interest income.

I'd be po'd too if I were in that position. Why can't the Obama's cabinet picks pay their taxes like everyone else? This just emphasizes what a double standard there is between the peons and the pols.

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    nostalgia6 months, 3 weeks ago
    
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    FTA:
    "Instead of just demanding that our government hold its appointees to the same exacting standards as IRS employees, they want to loosen restrictions on the employees instead to match the bad example Barack Obama set for them, and that the Senate endorsed. I’d say the Senate has a duty to ensure that Obama’s political appointees meet the higher standards expected of the people who have to answer to the appointees, especially in the bureaucracy that actually handles tax collection. Obviously, we can’t rely on this administration to have those kinds of standards on their own."
    
    You said: The "appointees" that aren't paying their taxes don't get the job.
    
    Where in the world have you been - under a rock?
    Geithner is in charge if the IRS - a tax cheat holding his employees to a higher standard than he is held
    If that isn't hypocrisy, I don't know what is
    
    Then the former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius was forced to correct three years of tax returns and pay more than $7,000 in back taxes. Head of HHS
    
    Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk owed an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade
    
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