{"id":25286,"date":"2014-04-24T08:27:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25286"},"modified":"2014-04-24T08:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:29:59","slug":"you-cant-say-the-irs-isnt-caring-and-generous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/24\/you-cant-say-the-irs-isnt-caring-and-generous\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t say the IRS isn&#8217;t caring and generous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/376435\/good-old-irs-helps-people-tax-trouble-tim-cavanaugh\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Cavanaugh<\/a> explains that your jaundiced view of the Internal Revenue Service is clearly contradicted by the IRS&#8217;s approach to helping people with tax troubles:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes it seems like you only hear the bad news about the Internal Revenue Service: the targeting of the president\u2019s enemies; the padding of union bosses\u2019 hours.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes the federal tax collector is there to lend a hand.<\/p>\n<p>During 26 of the darkest months of the post-recession, 1,100 persons in the United States had \u201csubstantiated Federal tax compliance problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet during that same time period, from October 2010 through December 2012, the IRS showed mercy, even charity. It gave those 1,100 people more than $1 million in cash awards, as well as other considerations of value.<\/p>\n<p>The other considerations included 69 workplace promotions and 10,000 hours worth of what California public employees call \u201cair time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is to say: All of those 1,100 were IRS employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Cavanaugh explains that your jaundiced view of the Internal Revenue Service is clearly contradicted by the IRS&#8217;s approach to helping people with tax troubles: Sometimes it seems like you only hear the bad news about the Internal Revenue Service: the targeting of the president\u2019s enemies; the padding of union bosses\u2019 hours. But sometimes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,84,13],"tags":[95,118],"class_list":["post-25286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-usa","tag-jobs","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6zQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25287,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286\/revisions\/25287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}