Posted on 09/16/2014 9:44:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Thomas Lifson wrote, “The law, to Koskinen, evidently is a suggestion, not an ironclad requirement.” Actually, the situation is even worse than that.
The IRS, like other government agencies, is in fact is a perennial, institutional lawbreaker. Professor Paul Caron’s TaxProf Blog, for example, annually covers the report of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) about IRS lawbreaking in asset seizures.
In the review period through June 2012, the IRS violated the law 30 percent of the time in asset seizure matters, up from 22 percent the prior year. It was 38 percent the year before that.
These are stunning statistics made more disturbing by the lack of being cured. Property, right up there with life and liberty, is a fundamental right expressly identified in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. This raises the obvious questions: What is the level of lawbreaking at the IRS when the stakes are not so high, and what lawbreaking at the IRS does TIGTA not look for?
Both Congress and the courts, however, have contributed to the underlying lawlessness at the IRS in ways that most Americans find offensive -- or would if they were to understand the abdication of power to the IRS.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Whenever we FEEL LIKE IT... we follow the law.
I wasn’t aware that following the law was optional.
Commissioner John Koskinen - Obstruction of Justice...
Is it redundant to call someone a criminal and an idiot.
I hope someone one the committee shot back with the question “ Can you please tell those instances when you were not able to, that you did not follow the law ?”
Which apparently is not very often.
Right in the face of Americans, and without shame, how long will we put up with this, "We The People" have a responsibility to our Free Republic, yet it seems nothing will get us into the streets in a serious way, all talk and no walk.
Law is followed on when someone is looking.
Ha!
Could we say that if we’re arrested for tax evasion?
They're still there, they're still doing what they do and I suspect they're just as evil as ever.......
As a side note, here in Michigan, there's democrat ads attempting to tie Terry Lynn Land to the evil Koch brothers in our senate race.....
“Commissioner John Koskinen - Obstruction of Justice...”
I find this guy to be particular offensive with his smug snarkiness. I’m afraid that if I were ever found in the same room with him, he’d go away with a broken nose. Not that I ever travel in those circles.
NOT “following the law” is very much an option if you are a Democrat. A great deal of latitude is permitted if you may be counted upon to not get in the way of the real agenda, which is to demolish the existing “social contract”, that is, to behave in such a manner as not to attract the attention of the authorities, observe the basic social graces, and pay your bills on time and in full, as required by contracts freely arrived at, which are observed in the fulfillment and not in the breach.
This attitude, that it is the default position to ALWAYS follow the law, has been under fire, and Republicans, by their very nature, are inclined to abide by the traditions and customs. Obeying the law was just part of it.
But now Republicans, being part of this “old” America, have to be subjected to a sometimes vicious and vituperative attacks, as being “out of touch” and Reactionary”, as if this were a bad thing. These attacks are reminiscent of the attacks that used to be, and still are, applied to racial and religious minorities by the same people who direct their wrath at Republicans and particularly conservatives today.
Persecution is still persecution, no matter at whom it may be directed.
And the IRS has become the premier poster child for how to conduct persecution. They have LOTS of tools in their arsenal they do not yet bother to use.
Some animals are more equal than others.
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