North koreans pick up on this middle finger mentality. They feel that chinas trying to koreart its hegemony over. Of course, it leads to meddling. So it doesnt surprise me when relations sour. Theim shocked more by people same by the fact that people seem perplexed by the souring of relations between china. Orea and as recently as the mid2000, chinas aid to north korea was was up and down. It hasnt been consistent. There have been periods of andnse, you know, mistrust souring of relations. This is something to again, Something Else to keep in the back of your mind as you are reading reports in the newspaper about the relationship with china and north korea. Decades,e past seven their relationship has i would say, you know, at one point i went through and tallied up. Out of the past 70 years, this is when relations were pretty okd versus, you know, just versus really bad. And it was, in fact i would say that the majority of the years unfortunately, i dont remember them off the top of my
And its been a while since we didnt have any the irs is going to become increasingly dysfunctional in terms of its basic mission. And my concern is not what do we collect with our own efforts, my concern is at some point the voluntary Tax Compliance system begins to erode. And thats not an on off switch. And you cant wake up one day and say, wow, i didnt know that was going to happen, heres some more money. So part of the reason im so serious about this is that people need to understand the fiveyear implications and ramifications of where were headed. And as ive said in other contexts, i dont want anybody to say we didnt warn you. So you should treat this as your warning that this is a real problem, and its a serious problem, and were beyond the simplicity of saying well, well cut your budget and youll be more efficient. Or well make sure you know what youre doing, you know . Cut our budget again and i know what were going to do. Were going to have fewer people, well have technology th
Work. That leaves us with enforcement Taxpayer Services and i. Tchl. So when you take a cut, weve done the best we can to try to balance that. And our appripriations come in those buktds, so to come extent, were constrained by where the proepuaters put the funding. We have probably 3,000 fewer people answering phone calls right now than we used to have to go along with the 5,000 fewer enforcement people and the 5,000 we put into Identity Theft, so were making a balances decision to try to figure out how do i minimize the negative impact of the cuts im going to take. Depending on how you measure it every revenue officer, criminal investigateor produces somewhere between 100,000 a year each. So we know when we ineffect leave money on the table, you can talk to any agent and theyll tell you we know its not a question of guessing. When we look at returns we start with the returns that have the biggest problems and so, were leaving on the table, tax cuts for tax cheats, there are people who
The comment made earlier about how to that people come i you let every two vet people, you let everybody run command you take the top two vote getters. You can watch the remainder of this event online at www. Cspan. Org. Breaking news out of boston, a jury has reached a verdict in the federal Death Penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. The verdict is an mad is expected to be announced momentarily. Lawyers are gathering in court. We expect to hear comments from the lawyers later on and we will hear comments from you, your reaction to the verdict in just a bit on cspan. Meanwhile, we will take you over to the Brookings Institution in washington. It is one week until tax deadline day. There in your screen is John Koskinen. He will be talking about how his agency is dealing with budget cuts. They are just getting started. Commissioner koskinen half of the book is dedicated to tax codes. There is a quotation from the book that we pulled. It says, the power to tax is the
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