{"id":46120,"date":"2013-06-28T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/top-ten-most-ridiculous-items-purchased-with-irs-credit-cards\/46120\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:50:37","slug":"top-ten-most-ridiculous-items-purchased-with-irs-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/top-ten-most-ridiculous-items-purchased-with-irs-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Most Ridiculous Items Purchased with IRS Credit Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atr.org\/top-ten-most-ridiculous-items-purchased-a7720\">Americans Tax Reform<\/a><br \/>June 28, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Nerf Footballs, Plush Animals, $140 Dinners and the \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Crossword Puzzle\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a review of the IRS employee credit card program this week. Many of the items that were purchased and approved may astound you. Taken directly from the report, Americans for Tax Reform has compiled a list of the ten most ridiculous items purchased with IRS credit cards:<br \/><strong><br \/>Item #1: \u201cNerf Footballs\u201d<\/strong><br \/>IRS employees used their credit card to purchase $119 worth of Nerf footballs that were intended to be used for a \u201cteam-building exercise.\u201d As if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, they never used the balls, which are \u201ccurrently stored in a filing cabinet\u201d somewhere in the bowels of the IRS.<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atr.org\/top-ten-most-ridiculous-items-purchased-a7720\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Friday, June 28, 2013  at  9:48 am<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/economics\/\" rel=\"tag\">economics<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/government-corruption\/\" rel=\"tag\">government corruption<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/money\/\" rel=\"tag\">money<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Republished with permission from:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/top-ten-most-ridiculous-items-purchased-with-irs-credit-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Top Ten Most Ridiculous Items Purchased with IRS Credit Cards\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Tax ReformJune 28, 2013 Nerf Footballs, Plush Animals, $140 Dinners and the \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Crossword Puzzle\u201d The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a review of the IRS employee credit card program this week. Many of the items that were purchased and approved may astound you. Taken directly from the report, Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}