Your tax dollars at work

So chilly what in that report is incorrect?

I don't know, I haven't read it, and neither have you. Heck, you haven't even linked it, let alone read it.

But only one of us has an opinion on it. And it's not me.

Those are direct quotes from the GAO and CBO reports

(Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job tracking its spending related to President Barack Obama's new healthcare law, an IRS watchdog said on Wednesday.
With Congress debating whether to take funding away from the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in an audit that the IRS failed to account for some of the agency's spending to implement the law.

Federal agencies must report their spending so there is an accurate measure of the full cost of government programs.

The IRS did not report $67 million in costs the agency incurred for employees who were working on the healthcare law for fiscal 2010 through 2012, the report said.

The money was part of $488 million the IRS tapped from a special fund the agency was using to implement Obamacare.

"Funding related to direct labor were sometimes inaccurate and not always substantiated by reliable supporting documentation," TIGTA said

These types of graphs are the typical lies we see from the current administration apologists. Think about what created the increased spending during the Bush years. Could it have been due to the wars? Now, one of those wars is essentially behind us so that spending could have disappeared. This is exactly why the Obama number looks smaller. A full 8% of increases has gone into other parts of the government as the war spending decreased. Now, what would happen if we got into another war?

The fact is we are heading towards economic disaster. And Krugman is an idiot as so many of his writings make clear. The Nobel Economics award is not one of the original science awards. Like the Nobel Peace prize it is an award that is now politically biased. Only a fool makes assessments of a person's abilities based on politically biased awards. A typical appeal to authority which is just plain silly but often gives one insight into the critical thinking skills and/or motivations of the person making such a claim..

I wouldn't find it all surprising to learn that the chronically-underfunded IRS has trouble tracking expenditures. In fact, I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case. When's the last time someone campaigned on a promise to make the IRS more effective?

"If you elect me, I will increase the power of the IRS, modernizing it so that it is even better at its job!" said no one ever.

"The money was part of $488 million the IRS tapped from a special fund the agency was using to implement Obamacare."

That is a lot of underfunding! The $67m of unaccounted for funds amounts to almost 14%!

Anybody see the irony in the agency that audits us, can't audit themselves?

The wars didn't end on their own. And they sure as hell didn't end without heavy criticism from the same administration-leftovers who started them. I believe the losing 2008 candidate promised undefined timelines in those endeavors. That same losing candidate is also advocating full regime change in Syria today.

The current president is not without fault by anyone's measure. But when it comes to "paying for things" his record is demonstrably more responsible than any republican in recent history

"The current president is not without fault by anyone's measure. But when it comes to "paying for things" his record is demonstrably more responsible than any republican in recent history "

In his 5 years in office his deficits are the largest in the history of the world

I didn't realize "deficits" and "spending" were synonymous.
The very deficits you speak of are caused primarily by tax cuts that you advocate. And I think thats the primary difference between you and me. We both hate the deficit...we just have different opions about the policy that creates it.