I've avoided commenting on this "issue" until now because as many of you know I worked for ( or at least against) the IRS and spent my last 20 years as a union official. One thing that is amusing as all hell is that in 1999 the IRS brought in an outside consulting firm and spent $400 million to "re-organize." Part of that re-organization led to the centralization of many functions, such as the Determination Unit, in service centers where they could be handled en masse by "expert" employees. What the consultants forgot - or never knew - is that the service centers were such shitholes to work in that people constantly left as soon as they could. The turnover was brutal so there were no "experts." The amusing part is that the name of the outside consulting firm was Booz, Allen, Hamilton which is now in the news for being the employer of the whistleblower in the NSA telephone scandal. Wait until the republicunts connect those dots! Although I'm sure BAH is a massive contributor to republicunt PACs just like most corporate criminals.
Anyway, the 501 c 3 determinations are bad enough but the regulations around the 501 c 4's are mind-boggling. When it happened my wife asked my opinion and I said "some manager was trying to get control of his/her workload and decided to use the web to check out just how "political" some of these groups were." It was 2010 and these tea party shits were coming out of the woodwork and were all over the news every night with their stupid "get your government hands off my medicare" signs.
Speaking for the employees I represented it is safe to say that they don't give a shit either way. All they want to do is close the case in such a way that their manager signs off on it and move to the next bunch of liars who want a tax exemption for political activities. They don't have the time to worry about each case. As soon as they get rid of the one in front of them they have a whole drawer full of others that present exactly the same problems all over again. So Cummings revelation is no surprise. The need to move paper out goes right up the management chain of command and although the IRS loves to talk about "quality" the sad fact is that they care far more about "how many" than they do about "how well."
Anyway, the 501 c 3 determinations are bad enough but the regulations around the 501 c 4's are mind-boggling. When it happened my wife asked my opinion and I said "some manager was trying to get control of his/her workload and decided to use the web to check out just how "political" some of these groups were." It was 2010 and these tea party shits were coming out of the woodwork and were all over the news every night with their stupid "get your government hands off my medicare" signs.
Speaking for the employees I represented it is safe to say that they don't give a shit either way. All they want to do is close the case in such a way that their manager signs off on it and move to the next bunch of liars who want a tax exemption for political activities. They don't have the time to worry about each case. As soon as they get rid of the one in front of them they have a whole drawer full of others that present exactly the same problems all over again. So Cummings revelation is no surprise. The need to move paper out goes right up the management chain of command and although the IRS loves to talk about "quality" the sad fact is that they care far more about "how many" than they do about "how well."
