Posted on 04/18/2014 1:50:16 PM PDT by Pelham
Yesterday was a significant day in the IRS abuse scandal. The scandal evolved from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents in prison.
Emails obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act reveal Lois Lerner cooking up plans with Justice Department officials to talk about ways to criminally charge conservative groups that are insufficiently quiet.
Larry Noble, a law professor now with the Soros-funded Campaign Legal Center, was cited in the emails as someone agitating to jail conservatives who “falsely” report on IRS forms that they are not engaged in political speech. Lerner talked about setting up meetings with Justice Department election lawyers who wanted to talk about making Noble’s dreams a reality — this after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse raised the idea of criminal charges for conservatives who are not sufficiently quiet, charges that they falsely completed an IRS tax exemption form. Larry Noble
Their theory is a favorite among speech regulators in the Soros-funded left and academia. It goes like this: “Too much speech is bad (unless unions do it.) Groups who talk about things leftists find uncomfortable are necessarily political and thus should never have 501(c) tax exempt status. Criminally charge any group that said on their IRS tax exempt form that they were not political if they say things the left finds uncomfortable. Get Eric Holder’s Justice Department on the case.”
The emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal this is essentially what was going on behind the scenes at the IRS, DOJ, and with outside leftist interests.
The emails, so far, only name a few of the speech regulators involved. But there are many who don’t appear in the latest document dump that give life to the cause of limiting the
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I have studied the fair tax and consider it far worse than a flat tax and on par with our current tax mess. No thank you.
The 47 percent layabouts, government grifters, illegal immigrants, dead voters.
Uh Huh. So name one thing in which it is ‘far worse’.
The entire fairtax rebate system falls apart in states with a sales tax and no income tax. It makes a strange kind of sense to me but the complexity is not so distant from the original laws implementing the current income tax. With tweaks added for those states the fairtax gets ever more complex. And then the requirment for still more tweaks invites the critters to layer on the “refinements.”
I’m a big believer in user fees to fund goverment infrastructure. The tech is here to track your road usage. Pay for it every month. Likewise parks, parking lots etc.
The national defense requires a flattax every year, from everybody.
Double taxation
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