The poor or obama

[bluemouse]

Obama Admin Kills Program That Helped Poor File Taxes, Sends Funding To Liberal Groups
Tweet Permalink Posted Monday, March 16th 2015 @ 9am by Richard Pollack
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The Obama administration has quietly killed an IRS tax preparation program designed to help low-income and disadvantaged citizens, choosing instead to give millions of dollars to liberal groups for the same purpose.

Without fanfare, the administration has closed down the free walk-in services at hundreds of taxpayer assistance centers around the country.

Administration officials are now trying to steer the “face-to-face” help to volunteer community groups, some with political ties. But one undercover inspection of those groups in 2013 revealed a 49 percent error rate.

Enjoying bipartisan support, the tax centers had provided service to low-income and disabled citizens, rural dwellers and citizens not proficient in English. Workers earning $49,000 or less got free face-to-face help from IRS employees.

Funding was not an issue for the program. Unlike other parts of the IRS that faced cutbacks, the taxpayer assistance program was left untouched by Congress.

“In enacting the IRS’s budget for FY 2015, Congress spared the Taxpayer Services account from the reductions it made to other IRS accounts,” according to a 2014 annual report by the Taxpayer Advocate Service, a federal agency that represents taxpayers.

The report to Congress was titled, “Taxpayer Service Has Reached Unacceptably Low Levels and Is Getting Worse.”

Even so, according to the IRS, the administration abruptly ended the service in January 2014 without hearings, legislation or a public comment period.

Discontinuing the program has generated a storm of protest from taxpayer advocates who say the poor and disadvantaged are facing increasingly complicated tax burdens, but are getting less help from the Obama administration.

Many tax advocates say ending the service for the poor is the height of hypocrisy for an administration that claims to support the little guy.

“The thing is that this is an administration that pledges itself as trying to help out ordinary Americans, to help out the little guy,” observed Ryan Ellis, the tax policy director at the conservative Americans for Tax Reform.

“I wouldn’t think they would be shutting down an office whose very focus is to help those very people,” he said.

Daniel J. Pilla, a tax litigation consultant, says he considers the elimination of the program “outrageous.”

“We’ve got these people who make every effort to comply with the code. They look to the IRS for help and they’re not getting it,” he argued in an interview with TheDC.

“The decision to not provide the service was a deliberate decision that to me is outrageous,” he told TheDC.

Notably, the taxpayer advocate service of the IRS has condemned the elimination of the tax assistance program.

“[T]he government is largely turning its back on a significant number of taxpayers who require face-to-face assistance to comply with their tax obligations,” the advocate service stated in its 2014 annual report.

The agency added in the annual report that the Obama administration cancelled the program without a proper evaluation of its impact on low-income and disadvantaged people.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

No American cares about What A Traitor Thinks,,So post all the Lieing Crap you want You are a Still Supporting Treason .

Senate Republican open letter to Iran. Including 47traitors

For Tom Cotton at least, this letter wasn't the first step off the deep end on Iran. In 2013, Cotton offered an amendment that would have harshly punished people violating sanctions on Iran.
Actually, Cotton wouldn't have stopped at harshly punishing the violators themselves:

Cotton also seeks to punish any family member of those people, "to include a spouse and any relative to the third degree," including, "parents, children, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, grandparents, great grandparents, grandkids, great grandkids," Cotton said.

Yes, Cotton thinks that the -------->great grandchildren of people who violate Iran sanctions should be imprisoned. Which, by the way, is ----->completely unconstitutional.

But this is someone who got the vast majority of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, including leadership, to sign onto a letter to Iran trying to torpedo American diplomacy.

Congressional Republicans listen to this man.

That's terrifying—but if this open letter has helped discredit him publicly, it may be one good outcome of the whole mess.

[bluemouse]

Another clown responce from yesterdays news idiot. Check today clown and see how many dems are lining up against your go it alone idiot. Pinemooch obabbler has been teabagging you since day one your outlook will never change.

[Pine Lakes]

Another clown responce from yesterdays news idiot. Check today clown and see how many dems are lining up against your go it alone idiot. Pinemooch obabbler has been teabagging you since day one your outlook will never change.

That's because he doesn't have his own "outlook". His lips are firmly grasping the teet of Obama due to stupidity, dependency, or both. You choose. I've been seeing where he rips people for cut and pastes, and I find that so ironic and funny from the king of it. Noone in the history of this board has been exposed for the use of baseless, bigoted cut & pastes more than Adolf(Rufus) Stewart from Pineville, KY. But like all hateful liberals, it's only ok if he does it.