[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11617]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TAXPAYERS' DOLLARS

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, the American people have an expectation 
that the hard-earned money that they pay in taxes will not be wasted or 
used fraudulently. However, we have seen far too many examples of the 
Federal Government squandering taxpayer dollars.
  Take the IRS, for example. We have learned the earned income tax 
credit has an error rate of over 27 percent. That means taxpayer money 
is wasted to the tune of $15 billion. Compare that to the private 
sector, where Visa maintains an error rate of 0.06 percent.
  In another shocking revelation, it was even discovered that a single 
mailbox received 24,000 fraudulent tax returns, totaling $46 million. 
One mailbox, Mr. Speaker.
  In addition to fixing a broken Tax Code by making it simpler and 
fairer, Washington needs to also be good stewards of taxpayer money, 
making sure that taxpayer dollars are not wasted, are not misused, and 
that there is appropriate oversight over the IRS.

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