Howza ’bout that IRS scandal? The IRS was targeting Tea Party groups. Meanwhile, liberal groups had no trouble getting tax exempt status. Isn’t that just special? Remember, it’s the IRS that’s gonna be the enforcement arm for Obummercare. Doesn’t that give you a warm and fuzzy feeling?
Here’s more. Lois Lerner, who was in charge of the section of the IRS which grants tax exempt status, and who claims she did nothing wrong, even though she is taking the Fifth for her testimony, is gonna be the person in charge of the section of the IRS responsible for Obummercare. That is even more of a warm and fuzzy feeling.
Have any of you ever dealt with the IRS? I have. I’ve written about this before. Back in the early ’80’s I invested in a perfectly legal tax shelter. One of the persons in the tax shelter was audited and the IRS gave that person the numbers that the IRS said were OK. So, I filed an amended tax return using the IRS supplied numbers. Guess what? I was audited. I told the IRS dickhead that I was using numbers supplied by the IRS. He told me that those were numbers from the downtown IRS office. I asked how that worked? Each office could make up their own set of rules? He told me that was true and if I didn’t like it I could take them to court. The amount was only $270 so I just paid it. One of the other participants in the partnership took them to tax court. Every time he showed up, the IRS lawyers asked for a continuance which was granted. They didn’t really have a case. I imagine he finally gave up as well.
Isn’t is nice that the IRS can change the rules from office to office? And these are the people who are gonna run Obummercare.
Here’s another thing that pisses me off about the IRS. In criminal cases you are innocent until proven guilty. With the IRS, you are guilty until proven innocent and the burden of proof isn’t on the IRS (which seemingly can change tax laws from office to office) but on the taxpayer.
The IRS can seize your assets and garnishee your wages. It can ruin you. No wonder the rat bastard commies in the Oblunder administration have sicced the IRS on their political foes.
I wrote a post awhile back where I said when incompetent Dimocrat presidents get in trouble, we hear that the gummint has just gotten too big for one man to run. That’s what Axelrod said the other day in response to all of the Obungler scandals that are turning up now. Obeauzeau just can’t keep track of all the stuff going on in his administration.
Here’s a solution for that. Quit growing the size of the gummint. Shrink it. Then the Obamessiah can do a better job of running the gummint.
But what Axelrod said was total bullshit anyway. They said this about Jimmah Carter back in the 70’s. Obongo knew what was going on at the IRS He was behind it. It’s the Chicago way and Oboner is nothing more that a Chicago thug. He was responsible for the disaster at Benghazi as well. He left four Americans to die while he went to bed and got up the next morning for a fundraising trip to Las Vegas. The buck is supposed to stop at the president’s desk. With this president, it’s always someone else’s fault. He takes credit for the good stuff, like the bin Laden takedown and blames the bad stuff on others.
Thanks voters!
‘the gummint has just gotten too big for one man to run. That’s what Axelrod said the other day’
I never would have guessed Axelrod to be a TEA party member.
FWIW, WSJ pundit James Taranto does a brilliant job in putting the pieces of the puzzle together and presenting the big picture. A couple of his recent articles:
A Crisis of Authority
The Dog Whistler
As far as that IRS guilty-until-you-prove-yourself-innocent thing…Yes, anyone who has ever had to deal with the IRS (which would be a minority of Obama voters) is made painfully aware of the weird double standard that rules this supposedly-free nation. If they treated criminals the way they treat taxpayers, our self-proclaimed guardians of civil liberties would scream till the cows come home.
Congress should treat the IRS like we are treated by the IRS. Confiscate their paychecks, freeze their assets and put chains and locks on all IRS buildings.
Long ago I made an honest mistake on my tax return in 1986. I underpaid my taxes by about $800.00. The IRS bastards let it lay until 1992 before they notified me about the issue. By then the tax & penalties had balooned to around
$6000.00 or so. I fought the law and the law won as the song goes.
I had to pay up. ABOLISH the evil IRS NOW!!!
Looks like Larry Connors was fired, as you figured. The station doesn’t want wholesale IRS audits.
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This really is the big awful scandal, as so many of us are touched by terrible IRS abuses.