Why the IRS Can’t Afford to Answer Your Calls for Help
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Soon after the Internal Revenue Service announced that, thanks to budget cuts, it wouldn’t be able to answer its helpline, the House Ways & Means Committee found that this ship of fools had awarded a $4.46 million contract to CGI Federal.
In case you’ve forgotten, CGI was the contractor behind the failed Obamacare website.
As Rudyard Kipling long ago noted, “The burnt fool’s bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire.”