What do you do if you’re part of a government bureaucracy that has been caught red-handed engaged in sleazy, corrupt, and (almost surely) illegal targeting of Americans for their political beliefs?
But before you answer, keep in mind that your bureaucracy also has been exposed for wasting huge amounts of money at lavish conferences. What’s the ideal way of dealing with the fallout from that scandal as well?
The answer is simple. Even though you and your pals already are paid more than the peasants in the private sector, give yourself and your cronies giant bonuses!
I’m not joking. Here are some excerpts from an AP report.
The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. …“The IRS always claims to be short on resources,” Grassley said. “But it appears to have $70 million for union bonuses…” Three congressional committees and the Justice Department are investigating the targeting of conservative groups. And key Republicans in Congress are promising more scrutiny of the agency’s budget, especially as it ramps up to play a major role in implementing the new health care law.
Sort of makes this cartoon self evident.
Indeed, this motivates me to announce “Mitchell’s First Theorem of Government.”
I’ve explicitly expressed this sentiment in the past, and hinted at it here, here, and here.
Now it’s time to make it official.
I hope you’ll agree this is a nice addition to Mitchell’s Golden Rule, Mitchell’s Bleeding Heart Guide, and Mitchell’s Law.
And maybe one of these will catch on and I can be famous like Art Laffer.
P.S. Enjoy some cartoons about the IRS scandals here, here, and here.
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I should be surprised, but, wow! Talk about tone deaf.
I wonder if the IRS and AIG are related? The US taxpayers bailed out AIG and AIG gave their employee’s bonuses.
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