Monday, June 30, 2014
IRS spent $4.4 billion on IT over past five years � Hot Air
Apparently the I.R.S. has had plenty of money to spend on Information Technology.
But, somehow, it wasn't able to preserve emails.
That's really hard to believe...
But, somehow, it wasn't able to preserve emails.
That's really hard to believe...
At HotAir.com, Ed Morrissey digs into some I.R.S. claims:
"Over eight years, the IRS spent $5.3 billion on IT during the Bush years, making for almost ten billion dollars spent over the last 13 years. That’s an average of $746 million a year over that period, and $880 million a year during the Obama administration. With that kind of money, it’s difficult to explain why the IRS could afford the kind of data storage that the federal government requires publicly-held corporations to use in Sarbanes-Oxley regulation, and indeed what the IRS is required to do under federal law as well. And this data makes it very clear that budget resources were not 'declining' at all at the IRS, at least not in the IT budget, despite what Koskinen claims."
