Feds soak taxpayers to renovate IRS building
by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Apr. 12, 2010
It will be a temple of taxes, a Tax Mahal, as the headline puts it. What a fitting symbol for a government run amok, and in a perfect setting too - the town of Andover, where last year 626 streetlights were turned off because the town couldn’t afford them anymore.
But now the Feds spend $92 million on the same IRS facility where they just eliminated 1,400 jobs. The Internal Revenue Service - all you need to know about Obamacare is that it will create not one single new physician or health-care provider, but it will require hiring new IRS legbreakers . . . er, make that “agents.”
The only “stimulus” this moonbat administration cares about is Big Government. Billions are sucked out of what remains of the economy’s productive sector to pay ever-more-outrageous salaries and benefits to politically correct layabouts who spend all day e-mailing one other and sharpening pencils, assuming they show up at all - a large assumption indeed.
Think of the most posh, ostentatious building in your community. Perhaps it’s the five-star resort masquerading as a state courthouse in Pemberton Square, or the federal Moakley courthouse on Northern Avenue, with its million-dollar harbor views. In the suburbs it might be one of those new $200-million high schools . . . or the IRS “campus” in Andover.
What all these buildings have in common is that they are public-sector, every one constructed with a public-be-damned attitude. Meanwhile, on Main Street, every week you drive by more empty storefronts, not to mention shuttered factories or car dealerships, and further out of town, dying or abandoned malls.
It’s like late-Medieval Europe, with giant cathedrals towering above the squalid thatched-roof hovels that housed the peasants, who were stuck with the tab for the church’s opulence. Like the bishops of old, the modern mandarins of Obama’s welfare state imperiously command us to do as they say, not as they do.
How appropriate that the overseer of this IRS chateau in Andover is Tim Geithner, the U.S. Treasury secretary, one of the many serial tax cheats in the Obama administration. Think Charles Rangel, Hilda Solis, Tom Daschle.
The private sector can’t shake this deep recession, as our bureaucratic grandees revel in unparalleled boom times. Take the Department of Transportation - please. According to USA Today, when the recession began, one DOT employee was making more than $170,000 a year. Eighteen months later, 1,690 DOT employees were earning more than $170,000. Tell me, what exactly do they do? This is not-so-stealth redistribution of wealth, not to mention reparations.
Of course we must spend $92 million in “stimulus” on an IRS playpen in a town where streetlights are now considered an extravagance. Just ask Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, another prototypical empty-pants-suit Democrat. Represents a district she didn’t even live in before she deigned to represent it in the House, and her only qualification is her last name.
Now the IRS will probably audit me. But they do it every year anyway. My crime is working for a living, and not collecting a handout. What can I say except, come and get me, coppers!
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