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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 2 points 7 points (+9|-2) ago 

This headline makes it sound like 60% of IRS employees were caught cheating on their taxes. But they wouldn't public such a deceptive title on purpose would they? Nah, I'm sure that would never happen.

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[–] Apathy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Well I read it as 60% of those who were caught. But if you'd like, why not re-word it in a better way for the rest of us.

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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago  (edited ago)

60% of IRS employees who were caught cheating on taxes were allowed to keep their jobs.

As opposed to

60% of IRS employees were caught cheating on taxes, and they were allowed to keep their jobs.

The headline is very obviously already wordy enough that the extra clarification is a glaring omission.

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[–] draegspir 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I read it that way also. How about this:

60% of IRS Employees Who Were Caught Cheating on Taxes Were Allowed to Keep Jobs

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[–] adfasdf 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

To be fair filling out taxes is not a trivial task. People make mistakes. Besides this, some people cheat a little, and some a lot. Some cheating is really misunderstanding the code. Not every IRS person is going to be a tax expert. I'd wager that most of the ones "cheating" that were kept were minor cheats that were possibly also easy mistakes on taxes.

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[–] BohMoon ago 

How in the fuck do you get 9 points for pointing out the obvious? Is there a fan club you need to join. I get 1 point for an in depth analysis. Done with this site.

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[–] AmaleksHairyAss ago 

Most people who will voat on posts do so once and then don't check back. By the time you commented there were few people still looking through the comments. But your post tells me you probably don't have the constitution for Voat.

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[–] prairie ago  (edited ago)

Didn't sound like that to me. If there'd been a comma before allowed, then I would have read it that way.

60% of (employees) allowed to keep jobs.

Clearly 60% refers to who kept their jobs.

60% of (employees caught cheating) allowed to keep jobs.

60% of those caught cheating.

60% of employees caught cheating, [and] allowed to keep jobs.

What a comma would have done

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[–] senpaithatignoresyou 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

In their defense, they may just be too stupid to do their taxes correctly.

You see, the IRS has a very hard time getting accountants. A government internship is unpaid, where as an accounting internship can net you up to 30 dollars an hour, on top of getting you foot in the door at a high paid accounting job.

So the good talent goes off to the big 4, or a good firm, and helps the rich stay richer.

BUT, if you fail out of college with a d- in 18 credit hours of accounting + business law, then you can be an IRS agent. so basically they are all the business school washouts.

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[–] HowieCameUnglued 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This is true with the SEC as well. Often when SEC investigators go in to audit somewhere, they ask for a job afterwards.

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[–] senpaithatignoresyou ago 

It sounds like you might be suggesting crappy government employees has something to do with wages and competition in a free labor market?

Suggesting? this is a fact. It is something the democrats are VERY quiet about. They never mention that all the government and political internships are unpaid.

These are not political science majors, gender study majors, African rhetoric or English majors that we are talking about here, these are accounting grads. These are people that had to work hard in college, and as a result can get a good paying job anywhere.

These are kids that are worth something. So why work at the government, making peanuts, when you can get a good career, being useful to the world, and make six figures after 4 years?

The obama government did not understand this. This is why we have had so much ineptitude out of the government over the last decade.

It is why Deloitte is taking over a lot of state government positions.

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[–] TigerCatcher 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I would put money down that the ones who kept their job were of a protected class, either by race or gender.

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[–] robabo 1 point 5 points (+6|-1) ago 

You forgot Jews the most protected class.

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[–] Penfold 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Got to keep those diversity quotas up.

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[–] BohMoon 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You have to think about IRS employees who are married to a small business owners. They file a joint return with the spouse's schedule C...well you get it right? It's not the IRS employee, it's the spouse. NO, it's not about diversity.

And everyone is too stupid to do taxes. The IRS is not about getting the top accountants out of college to do simple audits. To think IRS failure is about not getting the best accountants shows your ignorance about what the agency does. The purpose is to process returns and deliver refunds to taxpayers...simple. Audits are simple and don't need the best...

So tired of retards of attacking the IRS employees like they are getting a free ride. Dumbasses! If you want to find corruption, look at the leadership and the consultants from private enterprise running the agency. In the last 8 years the place went from government employees to a bunch of useless consultants and contractors doing the work at $250 an hour. And the worst part is they don't even do the work, IRS employees have to collect the data, validate and they some unpaid college kid spin the data into a presentation and..I done. It only gets worse.

At first I thought this site was good, but not it's really a bunch of idiots trying to get their score up

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[–] daskapitalist 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Going to play devil's advocate here and point out it may not be deliberate. The US tax code is so complex that it's not always clear what you should do.

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[–] BoraxTheFungarian ago 

'One of the highest compliance rates...' according to the IRS right?

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[–] Ionsurfer ago 

Who were the stupid 40%?

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