Reflecting the wishes of the American people through the website YouCut, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today voted to save hard-working Americans billions of dollars by prohibiting new funding for the IRS for the purpose of enforcing the new health care law.

“Reforming our nation’s health care system should not involve expanding the reach of the IRS,” Luetkemeyer said. “Today’s YouCut proposal seeks to stop new taxpayer dollars from going to expand the IRS for the purpose of enforcing a new law that the majority of Americans did not want to see pass in the first place.”

Specifically, today’s YouCut proposal introduced on the House floor seeks to prohibit new funding for the IRS for the purpose of enforcing the individual health care mandate, saving taxpayers between $5 and $10 billion. According to the Congressional Budget Office, over the next ten years the IRS will require up to $10 billion in funding to implement the new health care law to hire thousands of additional IRS agents and employees.

Luetkemeyer today also highlighted the success of the YouCut website created to engage American families in choosing what items they would like to see cut from the federal budget.  Today the website topped over one million votes.

“The YouCut website is a tremendous tool in helping rein in this reckless binge that Congress has been engaged in,” Luetkemeyer said. “American families deserve a federal government that is efficient, effective and uses new technologies to better communicate with them.  We must cut spending at the federal level and the YouCut website is giving families an important voice in choosing what they want to see cut.”

On the YouCut website each week, Americans have the opportunity to vote on a spending cut and shortly after all the ideas are processed, Luetkemeyer and his colleagues will seek a vote on the most popular spending cut. Luetkemeyer is encouraging folks to visit http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/and help Washington get government spending under control.

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