Time: Tue Sep 30 11:15:47 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00517; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:27:02 -0700 (MST) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA16393; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:12:25 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:11:57 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: [SacredBull] IRS Works To End Taxpayer Abuse <snip> > > >=================================================================== >: ____ _ ____ _ _ : >: / ___| __ _ ___ _ __ ___ __| | __ ) _ _| | | Copyright : >: \___ \ / _` |/ __| '__/ _ \/ _` | _ \| | | | | | (c) 1997 : >: ___) | (_| | (__| | | __/ (_| | |_) | |_| | | | : >: |____/ \__,_|\___|_| \___|\__,_|____/ \__,_|_|_| News Service : >: : >: Because ridicule is a weapon. : >=================================================================== > >IRS Works To End Taxpayer Abuse >by Todd Gillespie > >The White House on Monday voiced its firm support for the Internal Revenue >Service, vowing to protect IRS employees from abuse at the hands of angry >taxpayers. > >"People should not forget that the people who work at the IRS are, you >know, honest, hard-working Americans who themselves pay taxes...IRS agents >have been the targets of violent attack over recent time," Gene Sperling, >President Clinton's top economic adviser said. > >Last week's Senate hearings on the Internal Revenue Service have prompted >calls for sweeping changes in the agency. The hearings exposed a downturn >in morale among IRS employees that officials have said might hurt the >agency's ability to collect $1.5 trillion a year in voluntary >contributions. > >Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bill Roth (DemoPubliCrat, Del.) said >"We have identified many egregious problems these last three days -- >problems that have devastated the lives of hard-working IRS employees." > >Chairman Roth referred to "problems that raise serious concerns" among tax >collectors and expressed his own "deep concern" that some IRS employees' >self esteem might have been damaged further during the hearings. > >One witness at the hearings, an IRS revenue officer for 25 years who >testified wearing a black hood and matching spiked collar, said "Until >very recently, I felt a great sense of pride in my job. I actually looked >forward to going to work." > >The anonymous agent said he missed the days when he "felt that management >truly cared for its employees. I find this no longer to be the case. I >have never seen overall morale in the IRS as low as it is right now." > >"Obviously, IRS employees are upset," Sen. Roth said. "We must cast >politics aside and work together to address these cases of abuse directed >against some of our finest public servants." > >Sen. Roth, who in 1993 sponsored the Arctic National Wildlife Protection >Act, which spent millions of tax dollars to protect the wilderness home of >the Porcupine Caribou, said his defense of the downtrodden, regardless of >species, will continue as he works for a kinder, gentler IRS. > >Last week's hearings revealed numerous examples of the public service >provided by the IRS. The Clinton Administration has used the agency >extensively as a defense against taxpayer abuse. > >Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee and noted Clinton Hater >who is suing President Clinton for inviting her to kiss his own >government-funded pork, announced this month that she received an audit >notice just days after refusing to settle her suit. > >Billy Dale, a well known Right Wing Tax Resister, was audited shortly >after being fired as director of the White House travel office in 1993 at >the urging of First Lady Hillary Roosevelt Clinton. > >And Famous Militia Leader Patricia Mendoza was notified of her audit >within a month of yelling "You suck!" at President Clinton during a >campaign stop in Chicago in July 1996. The IRS said she owed $200 in back >taxes and threatened to seize her washer and dryer to satisfy the debt. > >Housewife Marge LaFarge of Duluth, Minnesota said she supports the work of >the IRS and its career employees. "Them people got a tough road, >protecting the government from criminals," Ms. LaFarge said Monday. "I >think I'll send them some extra money next year," she said. > >The U.S. House of Representatives, among the top 10% of American wage >earners at just over $133,000 a year, did not return a reporter's >telephone calls Monday. Sources said the Representatives were tied up >discussing ways to avoid taxpayer abuse by giving themselves a pay raise >without actually having to vote for it. > > >=================================================================== >To Subscribe: Send mail to majordomo@foxvalley.net with "subscribe >sacredbull" as the message and you are OURS! Hahahahaha. 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