{"id":6194,"date":"2012-01-13T19:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2012-01-13T19:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T23:51:14","slug":"republican-war-on-irs-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/01\/13\/republican-war-on-irs-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The GOP&#8217;s War On The IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crooks and Liars calls our attention to the huge cost of the <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/jon-perr\/gop-war-on-irs-costs-us-billions\">GOP&#8217;s war on the IRS.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, the annual report to Congress from the National Taxpayer Advocate shows, &#8220;IRS is not adequately funded to serve taxpayers or collect revenue.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>C &#038; L <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/watchdog-growing-irs-workload-causing-150509382.html\">quotes the AP:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Internal Revenue Service can&#8217;t keep up with surging tax cheating and isn&#8217;t sufficiently collecting revenue or helping confused taxpayers because Congress isn&#8217;t giving it enough money to do its job, a government watchdog said Wednesday&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Congress cut the IRS budget to $11.8 billion this year. That is $300 million less than last year and $1.5 billion below the request by President Barack Obama, who argued that boosting the agency&#8217;s spending would fatten tax collections and provide better service to taxpayers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The GOP&#8217;s War On The IRS<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The GOP&#8217;s often applauded<br \/>\nFor IRS cuts, even lauded.<br \/>\nBut those savings ain&#8217;t real:<br \/>\nThe records reveal<br \/>\nA big loss, when you slash those who audit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crooks and Liars calls our attention to the huge cost of the GOP&#8217;s war on the IRS. Now, the annual report to Congress from the National Taxpayer Advocate shows, &#8220;IRS is not adequately funded to serve taxpayers or collect revenue.&#8221; C &#038; L quotes the AP: The Internal Revenue Service can&#8217;t keep up with surging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114,20,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[1780,1516,1777,1359,1562,1574,313,1779,1778,702,535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}