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Outrageous IRS Commissioner False Claim: 'Whenever we can, we follow the law'
American Thinker ^ | 09/16/2014 | By Mark J. Fitzgibbons

Posted on 09/16/2014 9:44:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen made a disturbing statement before Congress that the IRS follows the law “whenever we can.”

As Thomas Lifson wrote, “The law, to Koskinen, evidently is a suggestion, not an ironclad requirement.” Actually, the situation is even worse than that.

Lernergate unveiled for the public a deeper, even more sinister problem at the IRS. The evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the Tax Exempt unit of the IRS, with its cover-up involving widespread destruction of evidence, is like one highlight reel of a bigger reality within the Service and government agencies generally.

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commissioner; irs

1 posted on 09/16/2014 9:44:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Whenever we FEEL LIKE IT... we follow the law.


2 posted on 09/16/2014 9:45:36 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wasn’t aware that following the law was optional.


3 posted on 09/16/2014 9:45:44 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Commissioner John Koskinen - Obstruction of Justice...


4 posted on 09/16/2014 9:45:55 AM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is it redundant to call someone a criminal and an idiot.


5 posted on 09/16/2014 9:48:15 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: SeekAndFind

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 ?”


6 posted on 09/16/2014 9:51:38 AM PDT by TheCipher (It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ~Mark Twain)
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To: SeekAndFind
'Whenever we can, we 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.

7 posted on 09/16/2014 9:51:41 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: SeekAndFind

Law is followed on when someone is looking.


8 posted on 09/16/2014 10:05:00 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Fido969

Ha!

Could we say that if we’re arrested for tax evasion?


9 posted on 09/16/2014 10:10:26 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: SeekAndFind
Here's a question for ya, how many times have you heard the term "Haliburtan" mentioned since Obama was elected?

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.....

10 posted on 09/16/2014 10:11:32 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz bro......)
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To: GOPJ

“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.


11 posted on 09/16/2014 10:50:41 AM PDT by JimSEA
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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.


12 posted on 09/16/2014 11:08:00 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: Westbrook

Some animals are more equal than others.


13 posted on 09/16/2014 11:33:31 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SeekAndFind
A very convenient motto --- for the lawless ...
... Crime, Inc., own Smirking Weasel Koskinen.
14 posted on 09/17/2014 7:11:06 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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