Government Should Fire Federal Employees on IRS Delinquent Taxes Report (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | More than 98,000 civilian federal employees were delinquent on their 2010 taxes and owe more than $1 billion, according to Fox News. This report comes weeks after President Barack Obama announced he wanted to give federal employees a 0.5 percent raise, according to the Washington Post. How about we get our money from them first?

There is a bill sitting on calendar for the House of Representatives about firing federal employees who are seriously delinquent with their taxes. It was introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. I find it ironic how Congress has spent months debating about how money should be raised, saved and spent but have yet to take this bill off of the calendar and debate it. $1 billion is small when compared to the trillions which Congress has to deal with these days, but we all know how every dollar ads up.

As a political consultant, I see this bill gaining more momentum with the IRS results becoming public. While I understand how people face major economic issues from time to time, I believe federal employees need to be more responsible with their positions and with their taxes. How can the government come to the American taxpayer and ask for more money when a large portion of federal workers are not bearing their part of the burden?

Hopefully, this report will cause President Barack Obama to completely back off his idea of giving raises to federal employees right now. Instead, he should focus on pressuring these employees to become up to date with their payments so the rest of us should not have to pick up the extra charges. I believe Chaffetz's bill should move forward so we do not have to see IRS results like this in the future.

Sadly, President Obama will probably find a way to weasel out of holding federal employees responsible for their delinquent taxes. Why would he be hard on them when his go-to-guy Warren Buffet is in court trying to battle the IRS over millions in back taxes? He might even try to bail them out without a chance of ever getting the money back like he did with Solyndra. Only time will tell.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obama/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120124/us_ac/10878647_government_should_fire_federal_employees_on_irs_delinquent_taxes_report

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