Rachel Greszler

An easy fix to IRS tax filing delays: Don’t pay IRS employees to abandon their posts in lieu of union work – There’s at least one simple way to help reduce these delays: stop paying IRS employees to work for their unions in lieu of doing the jobs they were hired to perform. Each year, taxpayers are forced to pay thousands of federal employees for work they don’t actually do. This sounds crazy for private-sector workers, but for federal employees, it’s known as “official time,” or taxpayer-funded union time. Ensuring that IRS employees spend tax-filing season doing their jobs rather than working for their union is just common sense. Ultimately, public-sector unions should not exist, but so long as they do, public unions should be financed exclusively by the employees they serve, not the taxpayers against whom they negotiate. Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler