Posted on 02/12/2015 10:54:07 AM PST by Timber Rattler
When Carole Hinders answered a knock at the front door of her home in August 2013, she was confronted by two IRS agents. They told her they had just cleaned out the entire bank account of the restaurant, Mrs. Lady’s Mexican Food, that Hinders had owned and operated in tiny Spirit Lake, Iowa, for the past 30 years. The IRS seized more than $32,000.
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The aggressive tactics adopted by law enforcement in structuring cases are, perhaps, unsurprising given that the proceeds of forfeited property are funneled back to the very agencies responsible for the forfeiture — an arrangement that gives law enforcement a perverse financial incentive to seize as much as possible.
Under federal law, funds seized by the IRS are deposited in the Treasury Forfeiture Fund. Those funds are then available, without any appropriation by Congress, for use by the IRS to fund law enforcement activities including seizures of additional property. The result is a vicious cycle, in which abuse of innocent Americans like Hinders makes it possible for government to seize even more property.
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What could go wrong?
Anyone who steals 32 k needs to be shot.
The GOP seems content with just about everything.
Fedgov not only routinely punishes its own citizens; it now shows its contempt for the citizens by rewarding illegal aliens with IRS tax credits for taxes not paid.
Yup. At this point in history a party supposedly opposed to abusive federal taxation would have repealed the enabling legislation, closed the clearly criminally politicised collection agency, and figured out a more sensible approach.
But not them. And Loretta “Gimme Yo Money” Lynch is still going to get voted in by these phonies.
When we moved to KY, my wife got some sort of tax exempt card because we thought we might be doing some buying and selling of antiques. Nothing came of it so we just forgot about it.
Then in February of the next year our house payment bounced because they had stripped our KY bank account. Fortunately they could not touch our main account in Seattle.
Turns out that we were supposed to file a statement on usage of the card and since we didn’t, they just imputed something like $1,800 in probable taxes owed by us. The funny thing is that after a lot of back and forth mail and phone converstions it still ended up costing us $400 in the end.
This experience and our FedGov’s hostility to small business is why I will never start a “legitimate” business. I refuse to go to bed with the government. They are your primary antagonist, even more than landlords and competition.
I see them quite LITERALLY as the mob to which you pay as much “protection money” as they think they can get away with charging.
In several very real ways, I’ve gone Galt. And they increase every year.
” But not them. And Loretta “Gimme Yo Money” Lynch is still going to get voted in by these phonies.”
Which SHOULD prove to even the lamest FReeper that the GOPe is our enemy .
The standard to right a wrong should not be for the IRS to give back the money it stole, but to award triple damages to the citizen wronged by the IRS.
Free money for criminals, and they criminalize those who are innocent. Not the America I used to know.
That's all its become.
Sure, they benefit from the corrupt tax laws just like the dhimmis.
I am working more and more on the John Galt way too. Baby steps, Bob, baby steps.
I now call it “Galt’s Knob”, but it’s really 2 and a half knobs and a couple of hollers with streams.
http://s409.photobucket.com/user/robbbb4/slideshow/Kentucky%20home
Nice images.
No Notice
Froze his accounts which had 5 times what he owed but couldn't used the frozen accounts to pay the tax.
He had to personally borrow the money to get rid of the freezing of his Accounts.
Stuff like this is why someone should publish the home addresses of everyone who works for the IRS (and photo, too, if possible), from the highest official down to the capos and then down to the lowest level enforcers.
Yep
Marxists think that all the assets of all businesses should be in the hands of the collectivity. They’re just taking what they think is theirs already.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Are the evils no longer sufferable?
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Are the evils no longer sufferable?
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