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Guess Who Else the IRS is Targeting? (Todd Starnes)
FoxNews.com ^ | May 14, 2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 05/14/2013 4:11:10 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

By now you’ve heard that the Internal Revenue Service has been engaged in Nixonian-style investigations of conservative groups.

Words like “Tea Party” or “patriots” trigged special scrutiny by government revenuers. That was back in 2011 — about the same time I started hosting this daily commentary. And based on my subject matter, it’s safe to say that President Obama and I are not exactly b.f.f.’s.

Not too long after we launched the commentaries, I got word that I was being audited — all the way back to 2004. I hired an attorney and CPA and began the arduous task of battling the IRS. My CPA said he’s never seen the government agency so uncooperative. After months of hammering out a deal – they notified me last month that they re-tallied the numbers and discovered I owed twice as much as they originally said.

My CPA said something just didn’t feel right. The IRS, he said, seemed overly aggressive. It was almost like they had an axe to grind — a vendetta.

Friends, dealing with the IRS over the past few years has been nothing short of government-sanctioned bullying — a license to shakedown.

And the latest revelations should strike fear into the heart and bank account of every American taxpayer. Because if the government can come after someone like me — you could be next.

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irs; starnes; targeting; toddstarnes
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To: Timber Rattler

The irs IS the modern day KGB. It has detailed information on all people. It has the power (but not the right) to destroy, and to put out of business.


21 posted on 05/14/2013 5:14:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: DeaconRed

This is government by the people, the land of the free?

BS this is tyranny.

Abolish the criminal IRS

Impeach Obama

Abolish the IRS

But don’t forget that they are trying to sneak pass an Amnesty destroying bill through Congress( call Congress)

Imprison Obama and the IRS workers .These actions by the IRS were illegal unconstitutional

Repeal the income tax( 16th amendment) and replace that “sorely” needed revenue for fake global warming studies by replacing the income tax with a tax on China imports

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/13/Exclusive-McConnell-comment-IRS


22 posted on 05/14/2013 5:18:09 AM PDT by Democrat_media (D's & Mary Landrieu voted 4 UN to take away our 2nd amendment rights)
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To: Timber Rattler

I had to deal with the IRS over an item with my taxes. I under paid in 2010 and they are just now contacting me. Efficient? We were discussing me breaking the amount I had to pay extra (on top of the check I already wrote back then) into two payments (of course interest and penalties apply). I knew it was fruitless to haggle, but it struck a nerve with me when the chick said that the money was the IRS’s and they had been in a sense loaning it to me so I had to pay interest. I very nicely said, “really like when I let you keep a year’s worth of withholding and I don’t get to charge you interest?”

I think it may have confused or upset her. I am waiting for the axe to fall now. I should have just kept quiet and herded myself along the path with the other sheep.


23 posted on 05/14/2013 5:52:00 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Timber Rattler

And, how many of Obama’s are WAYYYYYYYY behind in their Federal taxes?


24 posted on 05/14/2013 5:56:55 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in thee shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadows of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: DeaconRed

bump


25 posted on 05/14/2013 5:57:08 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Timber Rattler
Guess Who Else the IRS is Targeting?

Targeted by the IRS today, by drones tomorrow. Welcome to the USSA Komrad. This will be part of the final solution to the gun owner problem.

26 posted on 05/14/2013 6:02:09 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Daveinyork
He’s certainly harassed all the time by the New York state revenue goons.
Not anymore - NY's harassment forced Rush to move quite some time ago. I believe Florida is his home of record now.
NY, in its infinite wisdom, has chased many a millionaire away ... I mean, who needs their taxes anyway?
27 posted on 05/14/2013 6:05:38 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

According to Himself, Himself, he’s harassed even more since he’s left. Every year he has to prove to New York that he neither lives nor works there.


28 posted on 05/14/2013 9:38:06 AM PDT by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
That’s the Chicago way.While probably not a federal issue, two groups were staging protests during the Obama years, the tea party groups and occupy wall street. The tea party groups were charged for the use of parks and police overtime, but ows was not.
29 posted on 05/14/2013 10:20:29 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Timber Rattler

Dana Loesch just tweeted your thread.


30 posted on 05/14/2013 6:35:46 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (safeandlegal.com Make it viral.)
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To: Timber Rattler
It was Mark Levin and his Landmark Legal Foundation that broke the scandal wide open.

Levin might have been working on the case for a long time, but are you sure he didn't just get a hot tip that tipped the scales and told him that now he had enough to go public? You don't find the timing a bit suspicious?

31 posted on 05/14/2013 7:07:59 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Cool!


32 posted on 05/14/2013 7:19:11 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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