Posted on 05/20/2013 10:52:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanded information about conservative groups’ college-aged interns, prompting outrage from one of the country’s top conservative activist organizations and leading one former intern to wonder whether his family’s pizza parlor would be endangered.
The IRS requested, in an audit, the names of the conservative Leadership Institute’s 2008 interns, as well as specific information about their internship work and where the interns were employed in 2012, according to a document request the IRS sent to the Leadership Institute, dated February 14, 2012.
The IRS requested:
“Copies of applications for internships and summer programs; to include: lists of those selected for internships and students in 2008. – In regards to such internships, please provide information regarding where the interns physically worked and how the placement was arranged. – After completing internships and courses, where were the students and interns employed?”
The Arlington, Virginia-based Leadership Institute is a conservative activist training organization founded in 1979 by Virginia Republican National Committeeman Morton C. Blackwell, the youngest elected delegate to the 1964 Republican convention that nominated Barry Goldwater. The institute was audited in 2011. As The Daily Caller has reported, at least two different IRS offices made a concerted effort to obtain the group’s training materials....
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The thing is, it’s not a complex issue. Even low information voters understand and fear the IRS.
The left has used the IRS for so long as its Stasi that it will backfire on them when they are exposed as the corrupt tyrants that they are.
Any one who has read Metaxas’ biography of Bonhoeffer will recognize these same tactics were used by the Nazis early in their regime. Discredit all opposition, work within the established bureaucracy and legal process to strip the freedoms and usurp the rights of political opponents behind the scenes, etc. This is only a prelude to what the radical left has in store for this country if we don’t put a stop to them.
Everyone who “goes along” with this anti-Free-America crap is guilty...everyone.
We need to lever this into a flat or fair tax. Get rid of the IRS and DemocratCare all at once.
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