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Originally posted by: pjstrohQuote
Originally posted by: alanleroy
Maybe they should have been more careful with the 132 BILLION DOLLARS they wrongly paid out in Earned Income Tax Credits between 2003 and 2012.
https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201340084fr.pdf
Bingo! Sorta. Well, no.
The IRS does not file tax returns on behalf of individuals, do they? They can only check the accuracy of the returns they get. As it stands they have enough resources to audit 1% of the population. Tax cheats at the low income level (improperly citing the Earned Income tax Credit) have a 99% chance of getting away with it. Why on earth anyone would want to reduce instead of increase IRS resources to track down this fraud is beyond me. The added resources would pay for themselves many times over. They would catch more cheaters and incentivize potential cheaters to think twice before cheating.
Part of Obamacare was increasing the staff dedicated to tracking down Medicare fraud. They've recovered billions beyond the cost of hiring the extra staff. Sometimes big government pays big dividends for taxpayers.
The fact they aren't anywhere close to complying with President Obama's orders to reduce these payments and they never even put in place a process to identify high dollar payments per executive order reeks more of an organization lacking focus, competence and priorities.
Throwing money down a rat hole never fixes the rat infestation. I bet a lot of this bloated organization could be outsourced for less money while performing at higher levels. At a bare minimum, the whole top echelon there could use a major shakeup. Bring in a guy like Jack Welch to run it for a couple of years.
