White House Can't Hide Look Into Koch Tax Data Misuse

Investor's Business Daily ^ | October 3, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

Scandal: A court tells the White House to ac knowledge the existence of a probe into whether one of its advisers used private tax records for political gain. Transparency is being forced on an administration that's anything but.

In 2010, an attorney for industrialists and libertarian political donors Charles and David Koch told the Weekly Standard of a senior Obama aide telling reporters on background that the Kochs "do not pay corporate income tax" through their company, Koch Industries.

How, the attorney justifiably wondered, did the White House get his clients' private information from the IRS?

The anonymous official has since been identified as former White House senior economics adviser Austin Goolsbee, and his remarks were aimed to besmirch the Koch brothers and their group Americans for Prosperity, the bête noir of Democrats and the White House for helping expose Obama administration failures and the dangers of its policies.

In a conference call with reporters, the Washington Post reported, Goolsbee used Koch Industries as an example to back up an administration claim that half of all business income went to companies that manage to avoid paying corporate income taxes.

Goolsbee could not have made his claim without access to the Kochs' private tax data, something a White House official is not supposed to have. The administration's early excuses were that he obtained the data from an unidentified government board and later that he must have read about it somewhere.

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

BUMP!

[Mouton]

This is dynomite and backs of the claims that the white house was clearly on the inside with Lois Lerner. This needs be pursued, people need go to jail.

[blam]

We all need to stop paying taxes until the IRS (Lois Lerner) crime is settled. They're so confident that they have already gotton away with targeting Conservative groups.

People must be jailed before I'll be satisfied.

[oldtech]

Something like this,if properly exposed,could & probably should put a LOT of people in jail.

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[FlingWingFlyer]

I hate having a bunch of Nazis running the government.

[DoughtyOne]

I have no idea how Democrat presidents get away with what they do.

I realize the press is what it is.  We have a Republican House.  Hard to believe, but we do.  And Obama gets free pass after free pass after free pass.


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[smoothsailing]

I look forward to the Austin Goolsbee perpwalk. What a slimey little jerk he is.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

I think the first name is “Austan”, not “Austin”.

Goolsbee is weird enough, the Austan makes it a lock.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This is how flamimg stupid the Republican party is.

When Harry Reid announced on the floor of the Senate that Mitt Romney “paid no taxes”, Romney should have immediately come back and accused Reid of being in possession of private tax records, which, since Romney had not yet to that point released, is a black and white felony. “Mr. Reid, you have just declared yourself a felon, under US Tax Code XX,yy,zz, and you have done so from the floor of THE US Senate, on National Television. I demand you surrender to the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate for fingerprinting and booking. Today, Now.”

Is that difficult or something?

[Robert357]

So now the IRS AG is involved in cover-ups of illegal activity. Wasn't the IRS AG the folks investigating the hard drive problems and missing emails as well? Oh, right there is absolutely no need for a special prosecutor, because Democrats don't violate laws, only Republicans. (/sarcasm)

[smoothsailing]

You’re right, it is Austan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austan_Goolsbee

His name could be John Smith, he’d still be a weirdo.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

He (Goolsbee) is a best bud of Sean Hannity.

Reach down and squeeze, Sean.

Whose side are you on, the American people or your pompous, perfumed contacts in D.C.

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[Chewbarkah]

Unfortunately: 1) Reid has immunity when speaking from the Senate; 2) Romney knew Reid’s claim was false and it’s not illegal to falsely claim you know privileged tax information; and 3) accusing Reid of actually having genuine privileged information would imply Romney paid no taxes. Reid’s game was to stir up controversy that appeared to force Romney to release his taxes to prove Reid wrong, so that Reid’s media snakes could point out that Romney was “unfairly rich” and to be hated by jealous losers. All this was a clever, utterly cynical gambit made possible by media reptiles.

Romney was trapped in being nice because he would otherwise be declared “unpresidential”. He should have had a response plan ready. My strategy: have a highly placed surrogate call out Reid as a dirty lying bastard who could either put up his evidence within 1 hour, or crawl away and shut up for eternity. Unless Obama was endorsing Reid’s dirty tricks, he had better condemn Reid and repudiate his lies immediately. That sort of thing.

Please, GOP, no more dishrags. Don’t be afraid to get some Reid on your shoes.

[Verginius Rufus]

Didn’t the head of the IRS visit the White House about once a week?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I truly believe that NO ONE will suffer any consequences from this.

Taxes? Who’s stupid enough to pay them in the first place? *SNORT* Oh, if it were only that easy!! ;)

[OneWingedShark]

1) Reid has immunity when speaking from the Senate;

It's not unqualified immunity; I suggest you take a look at that specific section to determine the exceptions.