IRS Blew Taxpayer Money on Pornography, Diet Pills, and Wine

The IRS is essentially the most corrupt and tyrannical part of the entire federal government. Their job is to literally rob innocent people and make life living hell for those who can’t afford to pay their taxes.

This culture of raw power, of course, leads to raw corruption. They targeted the Tea Party up until last month, they’ve taken multi-million dollar vacations and “conferences”… and now we’re seeing a new layer of corruption.

IRS officials were given special credits cards with essentially no oversight. Who cares? The money is literally stolen from others, after all. The end result was that the agents used the money to buy everything from pornography, Nerf footballs, baby clothes, wine, and even diet pills.

From the Associated Press:

A government watchdog says lax oversight by the Internal Revenue Service allowed workers to use agency credit cards to buy wine for an expensive luncheon and, in one case, romance novels, diet pills and baby clothes.

Two IRS credit cards were used to buy online pornography, though the employees reported the cards stolen. One of the workers reported five agency credit cards lost or stolen.

From the Washington Examiner:

The report shows that the “trend of purchase card usage remained stable during this period at an average of about $965,000 per week.”

The IG’s office found that the cards were also misused for managers’ meetings, team-building exercises and fundraising activities. This includes almost $4,000 in “improper decorative and give-away items” such as a popcorn machinerental, Nerf footballs and the “world’s largest crossword puzzle” bought for team-building.

Alcohol purchases totaled more than $50,000 — including an instance of buying 28 bottles of wine for 41 guests.

At this point, anyone who is defending the IRS is just delusional. It needs to be abolished.

http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/irs-culture-corruption/