IRS employees who don’t pay their own taxes?

According to APM’s Marketplace, more than 1,000 IRS workers who failed to pay their taxes still received performance bonuses.
Andrew Biggs with the American Enterprise Institute generally favors performance bonuses for federal employees. But, Biggs says, “it is difficult to have employees working for the IRS who didn’t in fact pay their own taxes. That undermines the credibility of the agency as a whole.”

The IRS is considering a policy change. To listen to the whole story, click here.

Northeast’s Housing Market is Rebounding

Realtors are seeing reasons for optimism in the housing market. As reported by NPR on April 23, one historic home sale suggests the high end of the market is booming again — in Connecticut, at least, and the National Association of Realtors said the price of a typical home rose nearly 8 percent compared with last year. Read more, and listen to the report, here