Official’s testimony reveals IRS planned crackdown rules in 2012

Washington Times ^ | 2/27/14 | Stephen Dinan

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The IRS’s new proposal to crack down on nonprofits was in the works a year before the tea party targeting scandal broke, according to a Treasury Department official who told congressional investigators it was spurred by pressure from outside parties.

The revelation follows earlier testimony from former IRS Commissioner Steve Miller, who told investigators that they started “brainstorming” ways to crack down on nonprofits while under pressure from a senior Democratic senator who was “complaining bitterly to us” about the way groups were engaging in politics while organized as social welfare nonprofits.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan recounted the testimony in a letter sent this week to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who now must decide what to do about the proposed crackdown.

The two lawmakers said the evidence proves the IRS crackdown was under way well before the revelation last May that the tax agency had improperly targeted tea party and conservative groups for scrutiny, and delayed many of their applications for nonprofit status.

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The EXEMPT Talk. and Talk. and Talk. The Criminals walk.

And the PEOPLE are more than fed up.

The Revolutionary War was wrought for much less.

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Abolish the IRS!

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Semiannual elections are increasingly for show, to condone the illegitimate powers of the uniparty. Elections alone cannot reverse our dive into despotism.

How did this happen in a free republic, to a self-governing people? Answer: One hundred and one years ago, the left sold the snake-oil of democracy to a people who forgot the lessons of our framing generation. Until we re-federalize the government and return power to a senate of the states, our horrible fate is sealed.

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan