Posted on 10/05/2014 7:57:19 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, the Washington Post noted an amusing coincidence: “Almost a quarter century ago, Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson served as Republican counsel on the Senate Watergate committee. Now he chairs the Senate panel investigating the current White House fund-raising scandal.” The timing was interesting because, as the Post explained, the “controversy came to light last year because of the reforms of Watergate, including requirements that campaigns and political parties regularly submit lists of their contributors to the Federal Election Commission.”
The Post went on to list seven major reforms that stemmed either from the scandal itself or the atmosphere of distrust in government in the wake of Watergate. Of course these reforms had at best a mixed record. And some of them, like the campaign-finance reforms, ended up strengthening the government’s hand over Americans, reducing transparency, and infringing on voters’ constitutional rights. There was also the famed Church Committee, designed to expose abuses in the intel community and rein in its associated federal agencies.
And it is quite clear that while some have called for a new Church Committee in the wake of Moscow defector Edward Snowden’s theft and dissemination of American secrets to investigate the intel community, what is really needed is a full accounting and reform of a different federal agency: the IRS.
We have covered here exhaustively the massive abuse-of-power scandal surrounding the IRS’s targeting of conservatives ahead of the 2012 presidential election, and doing so at the encouragement of prominent Democrats.
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shut it down
Or go to a flat 1% tax. No deductions, no nothing.
I'm sure they won't consider it.
LOL, absolutely nobody wants real IRS reform.
Nobody.
I know it for a fact.
It’s time to repeal the 16th Amendment.
>>LOL, absolutely nobody wants real IRS reform.
Nobody.
I know it for a fact.<<
You make a powerful point.
Remember the “kinder, gentler IRS?” That was read by many scofflaws as “GOOD LUCK GETTING YOUR MONEY, SUCKERS!” leaving, you, me and all taxpayers paying the scofflaw’s shares.
Unless and until there is Fair Tax or flat tax, then the IRS is used to enforce political agendae.
In almost every other country in the world, the tax man can be bribed for pennies on the dollar to look the other way.
Here it is just instructions from the president to look a particular way.
Never passed.......didn’t matter.....they get what they want...period
No Unions for Government workers
“LOL, absolutely nobody wants real IRS reform.”
Should read, “LOL, absolutely nobody in government wants real IRS reform.”
I would suspect 100% of tax-payers and 10%(or more) of the tax-takers want real reform of our corrupt system of taxes.
Never Gonna Happen.
I agree! Shut down the IRS, repeal the 16th amendment, and implement the ‘Fair Tax’.
Businesses would flood back into our country, and our nation would prosper again in a real way.
Like a lot of other things, if it hasn’t happened by now it never will. Too much corruption; too many hands in Uncle Sugar’s cookie jar.
The real reason IRS abolishment and rational tax reform like the Fair Tax or a flat tax will never come out of Congress is because the tax system as it currently stands is an outstanding way for politicians to reward their campaign contributors. A simple tax system without the possibility of the multitude of exemptions specifically written for particular individuals or organizations wouldn’t allow the pols to pass out the honey. The only way tax reform will ever happen is via an Article V convention.
no reform.
close it.
reform?
how about abolishing it and jailing many of its leaders?
Right after the next revolt. See tagline.
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