IRS BUYING UP AMMO

[Bocephus123]

Because if they don't spend every cent of their budget for the year they don't get the same amount [or more] the following year (if you get $10 this year but only spend $8, then next year you will only get $8). It's how the system is set up, so the agencies (and military) spend everything they have plus crying that they didn't have enough in hopes that they can get even more the next fiscal year. Sure would be nice knowing where they are storing everything, you know, just in case.

yea like tulsa public schools.... but why guns and ammo.... why not desks and computers, paper....stuff they actually use?

 

[ssgrock3]

Ya another conspiracy theory, we haven’t had one in a while.

 

[Chuckie]

Ya another conspiracy theory, we haven’t had one in a while.

The comment I made (#68) is neither in defense of our government nor is it a "conspiracy theory" but simply a fact about how our government agencies deal with their fiscal needs. Every agency submits a budget request through the General Accounting Office (GAO) requesting funds for that agencies operation during the upcoming/next fiscal year, with an eye towards always requesting more than they know they will need.

Any monies returned as not spent to the GAO at the end of the current fiscal year will automatically be deducted from the next fiscal years budget request. That is why agencies will spend [for example] $600. for an aircraft toilet seat (Air Force) or for a $500. bore brush (Army Artillery) . . . or contract for millions of rounds of ammunition, even if there is no foreseeable need for it. The government mantra is simply 'Spend it or lose it'.

If any "conspiracy theories" exists it's the idea that our government is stocking-up on ammunition in order to slaughter Millions of American citizens in some future 'civil war', or that most Walmarts will be turned into FEMA camps for political prisoners.

 

[OKCBird]

 

[Aries]

The comment I made (#68) is neither in defense of our government nor is it a "conspiracy theory" but simply a fact about how our government agencies deal with their fiscal needs. Every agency submits a budget request through the General Accounting Office (GAO) requesting funds for that agencies operation during the upcoming/next fiscal year, with an eye towards always requesting more than they know they will need.

Any monies returned as not spent to the GAO at the end of the current fiscal year will automatically be deducted from the next fiscal years budget request. That is why agencies will spend [for example] $600. for an aircraft toilet seat (Air Force) or for a $500. bore brush (Army Artillery) . . . or contract for millions of rounds of ammunition, even if there is no foreseeable need for it. The government mantra is simply 'Spend it or lose it'.

If any "conspiracy theories" exists it's the idea that our government is stocking-up on ammunition in order to slaughter Millions of American citizens in some future 'civil war', or that most Walmarts will be turned into FEMA camps for political prisoners.

This is a common budgetary tactic in the corporate world, too.

 

[Foxfire5]

The IRS Criminal Investigation Division was created in 1919, and has around 2,200 agents around the country. One office is in Tulsa and I had a neighbor who was the supervisor of that office. They have been buying ammunition and weapons every year. This story comes up from time to time in an attempt to rile up those that want to believe anything negative about gov activities.

Yes thats true but when they are buying more that the US Military uses in a year something stinks.

 

[DavidMcmillan]

And how much does the military use?