{"id":19295,"date":"2013-06-19T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19295"},"modified":"2013-06-19T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:07:42","slug":"who-is-actually-in-charge-of-the-internal-revenue-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19295","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Actually In Charge Of The Internal Revenue Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20130619\/DA70MJC00.html\">My Way News<\/a> is reporting today that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a> is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses. In April, a directive written by Dannie Weffel, a former budget official who has since been appointed acting IRS commissioner,\u00a0 cancelled discretionary bonuses because of spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chuck Grassley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Sen. Chuck Grassley<\/a> of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Iowa\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.0,-93.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=42.0,-93.0 (Iowa)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Iowa<\/a> says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees&#8217; union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8976694444,-77.03655 (White%20House)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">White House<\/a> budget office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So does the government control the IRS or does the employees&#8217; union control the IRS?<\/p>\n<p>So let me get this straight&#8211;because of sequestration, school children cannot tour the White House, but IRS employees get $70 million in employee bonuses, and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President<\/a> and his family tour the world for $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Is it time for new <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Official\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">elected officials<\/a> yet????<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=2c42d1dd-d158-4f7a-98c3-5dc21d43a816\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Way News is reporting today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses. 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