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How many of us would love a job that pays bonuses for doing a lousy job? I sure would...Guess it was dumb of me to turn down the offer back in the 60s because I hated living in a city.
In two weeks, the Internal Revenue Service will close its doors for the third time this summer. IRS employees will not report to work on July 5, 2013, as the result of furloughs allegedly due to budgetary woes. IRS employees, already operating under pay freezes – some for the last three years – will not be paid for the day, a loss to IRS employees of between $160 to $400 in pay, depending on the employee’s position.
The series of furloughs have been considered necessary because of the extraordinary challenges facing the agency in the wake of spending cuts and sequestration. National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen M. Kelley has soundly criticized the move for months, saying, “[f]urloughing IRS employees is further evidence of the ongoing damage sequestration is causing across the country.”
There is, the agency claims, simply not enough money to keep the doors open.
Except, that is, for an extra $70 million.
Despite a directive from the Obama administration for agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, the IRS is moving ahead with $70 million in employee bonuses.
The most awkward part? That directive was issued by Danny Werfel, who is now serving as the Acting Commissioner of the IRS after the last Acting Commissioner, Steven Miller, was forced to step down in the midst of the tax-exempt organization scandal.
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