“It’s hard to think of a group of people less deserving of bonuses than IRS employees. Frankly, this is outrageous.” - Senator Orrin Hatch
TPNN — After years of harassing Tea Party and other conservative groups with invasive questioning and drawn-out reviews, the IRS’ new commissioner has announced that the scandal-embroiled agency will be shelling out millions in taxpayer dollars to award bonuses to agency employees as a means of boosting morale.Commissioner John Koskinen announced that the agency would be rewarding employees as a means of keeping and attracting talent to the agency at a time when the Internal Revenue Service remains under fire for their unabashed targeting of political groups for harassment. The overall payout for bonuses will be $62.5 million.
Koskinen stated,
“This is money best spent on our existing employees. The performance award payouts are in recognition of that great work done in very trying circumstances. I firmly believe that this investment in our employees will directly benefit taxpayers and the tax system.”
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee was unimpressed with the decision saying, “It’s hard to think of a group of people less deserving of bonuses than IRS employees. Frankly, this is outrageous.”
Koskinen’s announcement follows President Obama’s Sunday interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly where the president blamed Fox News for continuing to foment outrage over the scandal and claimed that there was not “even a smidgen of corruption” in the decision to target Tea Party groups.
The move sends a clear message to conservatives and congressional critics who have guffawed at the brazenness with which the Obama Administration continues to deny wrongdoing while the facts surrounding the IRS scandal clearly show otherwise.
Though the Obama Administration has maintained that the move to target Tea Party groups was not a politically-motivated move, the IRS did not target left-leaning nonprofits for years of harassment, but focused their attention on Tea Party groups and other conservative groups.
The IRS’ disgraced former head of the tax-exempt division, Lois Lerner, later claimed that the targetings were as a result of focusing attention on groups as a means of expediency due to a large influx of nonprofit applications. However, in 2010, the number of nonprofit applications increased minutely from 1,745 in 2009 to 1,865 in 2010. Lerner’s assertion that an overwhelming amount of applications earned the Washington Post’s infamous awarding of four Pinocchios.
With Koskinen’s bold announcement coupled with President Obama’s surly defiance, it appears the message has been made clear to IRS employees and other agencies within the federal government: not only is it acceptable for agencies to target political dissenters for harassment, but doing so may very well yield monetary rewards. » Full Article
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