Government by CRomnibus- blind, deaf and dumb: Column

  On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, Author James Bovard published an article on USA Today, titled "Government by CRomnibus- blind, deaf and dumb: Column." In this article James portrays a permissive style argument. For starters, James Bovard is an author who has written for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His intended audience for this article is for the American public. He talks about the CRomnibus bill which is a massive spending bill of $1 trillion dollars that would keep the government funded through the fall of 2015 with continuing resolution. Approved by the House of Representatives with hours to spare before the deadline it only lead James to believe that members of the Congress created 1,603 pages for this bill with no time to look over it. Political parties are outraged because of the unnoticed provisions added into the bill, without any warning or public hearing. A few provisions he listed was marijuana in Washington D.C, bread in school cafeterias, sleepy truckers, and portrait paintings in the federal offices etc. Congressmen lacked reading over it. He explains a survey that was done in 1977, that revealed the average congress member spends only 11 minutes a day reading at work and because of how low the results was, there has been no follow up surveys to prove otherwise throughout the years. James also believes that politicians think that they are superior to the "common folk" and that we are better off even if they have little clue what they are doing to the American public. Time only tells how the CRomnibus bill will affect and ruin our American liberty, and how it will gradually waste American tax dollars. Overall, I would have to agree with James Bovard because this is nowhere near fair for the American public. If it involves our hard earned tax dollars, and effects our everyday lives, it would be preferred if they would go over the provisions with other political parties and the public in order to avoid confrontation such as this.

USA Today Cutting IRS budget hurts taxpayers

                         

            On Sunday, December 28,2014, USA Today published an article titled "Cutting IRS budget hurts taxpayers: Your say." This article it explains, in order to punish the potential crimes of employees for the IRS the US government are wanting to cut their budgets. When cutting the IRS budget and not providing the necessary funding to update computer systems to help prevent fraud for us citizens to file online taxes safely, this may cause millions of honest tax payers to be punished as well. I feel that this article is worth reading because it makes you wonder is this really a feasible idea. Crimes will always occur no matter how much the government tries to "punish" them. Another good reason is that the IRS is extremely important to every single citizen in America since they are one of the government branches that are responsible for tax collection and tax law enforcement, in order to make sure people in this world don't try to cheat the system. So why not take the time to read this article it may give you a different perspective on what is going on.