Anyone that offered up this excuse would be gone in a heart beat if it were up to me. "IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the agency's information technology infrastructure is so dated that some employee computers still run on Windows XP, which is no longer supported by Microsoft." We truly need to elect some competent leadership with a mission to clean out the garbage we have inhabiting the Nations capital. http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/washingtonbureau/2014/06/republicans-tell-irs-nobod
yeah....I have been watching some of his testimony, he is so full of shit and it is very evident. You are correct, this is an infestation
Here's why I could never be in Congress: My first question to him would be, "Why do you have that shit-eating grin on your face?"
That must have been a truly controversial article, the link is dead for me. Regardless, it sounds like all of this IRS bullshit is a prime example of needing campaign finance reform. Get the dirty money and interests out of government.
Let me get this straight. Your answer to a permanent bureaucracy completely unaccountable to the American people and its elected officials in Congress is...campaign finance reform?
Funny, it strikes me as the need to get the dirty corruption out of government and leave people to be as political as they will. The RIGHTS OF ASSEMBLY AND PETITION were pretty much unfettered until the Income tax was implemented. The 16th amendment has no definition of income. It is a complete stretch to attempt to deem donations to an organization which has the right of assemble as income. Everyone knows that people need to assemble to for political purposes and that takes money to be effective. This is why people donate. The 16th amendment does not interfere with this right as "income" is not defined, but the implementation of this power to tax is reaching when donations for this purpose are deemed income. To do so should take another amendment which would never pass. Even if you hate everyone that would assemble under any name that included "Tea Party" in their name, they do have the right, and should have the right to collect donations to support their activity. Giving the IRS the discretion over this activity is mindless especially if you take a long look at the these people when they come before Congress. The grinning arrogant jackass in charge can not possibly be expected to serve your interests and mine. http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1efrag7_user.html#amdt1e_hd17
Sure, I'll clarify! So do you think the IRS did this for fun? You think they acted on their own. And the democrats were not at all involved in the decision process. Got it!
I believe that the IRS technology is completely outdated . . . I also believe IRS (and other gov't agencies) are inherently intertwined with politic parties.
