No exceptions - purchase these items that you may not want or need or face stiff fines from the republican president's enforcement branch - the IRS.
It’s been strongly suggested that one of the goals of Obama’s NSA program was designed specifically to spy on and blackmail political enemies, and the IRS flap (with the convenient “losing” of data) was such an obvious Orwellian attack on the conservative movement that it’s clear the IRS has been enlisted too, along with its usual role of acting as the KGB and extorting hard-earned profits from American businesses.
(This incidentally is why my son and a niece are moving to Brazil next year along with several other relatives going abroad— whatever the shortcomings in other countries, the aggressive, over-powerful IRS is now making it absolutely impossible to do business or make money for oneself in America anymore.)
One of the reasons that Lindsey Graham, in conservative South Carolina, suspiciously supports amnesty and gun control is likely related to the dirt the NSA has on him (plenty of compromising photos) related to his laughably poorly hidden in-the-closet status.
That nonetheless being said, I’m not sure I’m inclined to in effect defend Roberts by attributing his actions to blackmail. He’s shown himself to be a RINO and a traitor to the conservative cause long before.