Schumer: Halt ‘Self-Congratulatory’ Mailer
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Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the IRS to halt the mailing of about 130 million letters to U.S. households that tell them they will be eligible to get federal rebate checks. The feds estimate the cost of the mailing at about $41.8 million.
“There are countless better uses for $42 million than a self-congratulatory mailer that gives the president credit for an idea that wasn’t even his,†New York’s Democratic senior senator said.
“Instead of wasting taxpayer money, the IRS should spend its time and effort getting the checks out, and focusing on the seniors and veterans who are wrongly at risk of missing out.”
Schumer said the money could instead fund hiring more IRS employees to improve tax collections that would increase federal revenue.
Here’s the Associated Press article on the issue.
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Right. Don’t give the 41 mil back to the people whose money it is – hire more government employees to harass the people. Same logic as Spitzer whose ‘budget cutbacks’ call for hiring 2000 more state employees. These jokers are great candidates for a hit sit-com.
And I’m calling on Upchuck to halt his weekly self-congratulatory press conferences.
Let me get this straight—Chuck Schumer is assailing another party for being “self-congratulatory”? Forgetting that it’s an inantimate object such as the IRS, is this the same vain Chuck Schumer who assails us New York citizens with a regular Sunday press conference in which he congratulates himself on matters large and small?
Not that I’m a big fan of Schumer’s own posturing and promoting, but at least his press conferences don’t cost us taxpayers $41.8 million. Couldn’t they save $$ and send a postcard? (I can see why the IRS might want to warn people that the mail they are about to get will be good/a check, as opposed to bad/audit notice, but I find it hard to believe they can’t do it cheaper.)
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