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How long is it going to take, for reality to sink in. In the pass they have tried private debt collectors, and it has failed greatly. What makes you think private debt collectors can do a better job than Internal Revenue Service employees. The IRS employee are well trained, moniter, and we print out a teach list,on a daily base. However due to cut backs, we are not able to do our jobs. Our computers are the worst, they are so out dated. The computers are always freezing to due the budget. I am an IRS employee, I take alot of pride in my job, as well as my co-workers.

Iris Quinones  | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |  10:26 AM

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Sorry, lj I didn't realize that the collection companies got the easy ones. How about the fact that Fed employees were overlooked by the vaulted CS ranks, until they had their noses rubbed in it ohhh I'm sorry that must have been a hard 1.
You just don't get, its only the government who pays whether the money is collected or not. Ohhh wait a minute we need a pay raise so we can be like private industry. If you worked for private industry all the banks would be insolvent

dan ketter  | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |  10:36 PM

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If you believe that there are no problems with banks and credit card companies collecting bills then you've been asleep for years. It would help if you could write a complete sentence. The problem is that the private companies get the cases that are easy to collect from thus making sure they have a profit. The problem that IRS employees are talking about is the fact that the private companies are not following the rules laid down in their contracts. A few years ago there was a private company receiving payments for the IRS and they got behind so they shredded payments to make it look like they had not received them.

I also have a problem with background checks being done by private companies for the CIA or FBI. I'm just waiting for the information they gather to be sold on ebay to help defer the private companies costs.

lj  | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |  10:38 AM

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Death knell? The same thing happened last year. And in '06. The House will pass the ban. But it has gone nowhere in the Senate. That's the hurdle. This doesn't change that.

Ben  | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |  11:10 PM

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I love the term"Inherently government", lets see the banks do it the credit card companies do it with no problem. Only the government has huge sums uncollected, many working for the government.
There is 1 reason why this isn't working the contracting people as usual don't understand the business and pays whether they do the job or not. Now not do the job and coming to work and getting paid for attentdance that;s "inherently governmental"

dan ketter  | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |  11:37 AM

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