$4.4 Billion Just Isn't Enough Money, You Guys

I mean, what can you even get for $4.4 Billion these days, anyway?

A review of IRS spending by the Free Beacon shows the agency has spent a massive amount on what it labeled as IT/software and data processing contracts in the past five fiscal years. The official government’s spending website shows the IRS spent $4.4 billion during this time period.

You can't really expect the IRS to run an IT system that preserves e-mails on that kind of shoestring budget, can you?

IRS delenda est.

Sumter Man Attempts to Pay Applebee's Tab with $1Trillion Dollar Bill

Applebee's declined. As an aside, the piece doesn't say how much his tab was. I'm assuming that it was substantially less than one trillion dollars, since Applebee's is a pretty good value.

Hey, he was probably just following the advice of noted economist Paul Krugman.

$1.1 Million in Charleston Wrongful Death Settlement

The lawyer gets $490,000.00 of it. And they didn't even have to try the case.

Yeah, I'm in the wrong line of work.

$918 Million Surplus Is Less Than It Seems

A few million here, a few million there. Pretty soon, you're talking real money.

I'm confident our legislature will do their best to waste it.