{"id":34,"date":"2014-06-24T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-06-24T08:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:22:04","slug":"irs-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"IRS Stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRS Commissioner John Koskinen seemed to have no answers, surprisingly, when questioned last night.\u00a0 He shifted and dodged blame like a professional democratic politician when asked questions.<\/p>\n<p>He thought there was no wrongdoing going on at the IRS.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Common sense told him so.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Did they even bother to look?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget the &#8216;missing&#8217; e-mails from Lois Lerner and six other IRS employees.\u00a0 Again, Koskinen failed to answer questions here, even stating that the IRS is underfunded.\u00a0 How much more funding do they need?\u00a0 According to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/PUP\/newsroom\/FY%202014%20Budget%20in%20Brief.pdf\">budget<\/a>, they operate on over $13 billion and yet, can&#8217;t properly secure their e-mails in backups?<\/p>\n<p>Final thought in regards to the e-mails.\u00a0 Did the IRS violate<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/about\/laws\/fed-agencies.html\"> Records Management by Federal Agencies <\/a>(44 U.S.C Chapter 31) by failing to have the proper backups for their e-mails?<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, this seems to be another do as I say, not as I do.\u00a0 However, if they can&#8217;t even backup their e-mails safely, how much confidence should I place in them receiving, processing, and storing my tax records?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRS Commissioner John Koskinen seemed to have no answers, surprisingly, when questioned last night.\u00a0 He shifted and dodged blame like a professional democratic politician when asked questions. He thought there was no wrongdoing going on at the IRS.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Common sense told him so.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Did they even bother to look? Let&#8217;s not forget the [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[43,29,44,34],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states","tag-e-mail","tag-irs","tag-koskinen","tag-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}