Posted on 05/15/2013 11:39:07 AM PDT by topher
With the law suit against the IRS for Medical Records, a question arises whether conservative groups should follow suit by filing class action suits.
What if, as a result, we would no longer need Freep-A-Thons.
Or suppose that the NRA would have even more money to spend on TV commercials.
What if the T.E.A. Party would be become a major player in the US Political system...
Certainly, many pro-life groups could use the shot-in-the-arm that money from the IRS might provide.
On the other side, this is contrary to conservative beliefs: government waste, i.e., having to pay out millions of dollars in lawsuits.
There may or may not be any basis for restitution by the IRS and the Obama Administration.
Uh, I don’t know if you ever followed the birth certificate thing, but there’s the matter of standing.
Obama has reportedly found two “rogue” IRS patsies to blame the entire scandal on. The discriminated Tea Party groups should file suit against two individuals. Unless, of course, the patsies spill the beans on who really ordered the harassment.
IRS thing is big yes and will be around a long time.....Bigger Picture IMOP is Benghazi so lets not overly politicize IRS thing and loose credibility on all the other crap going on.
There is probably a rule or some such BS that doesnt allow suit of an agency like the IRS.
One scandal at a time,the more still under investigation in 2014 the better
I thought of Class Action back when Obama claimed that the IRS is an Independent Agency ... just didn’t know if we could actually sue them.
If it is possible I personally support suing them from every degree on a compass.
TT
Yes, and they will audit you.
WE LIVE IN A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP.
Do we get audited if we say yes?
No. A) it’s a giant waste of time, effort and money and B), any award by the court would amount to ~$5 worth of unusable merchandise for the victims who suffered the harm and ~$500 Bazillion for the law firm that handled the suit.
I would say any one who is a member of a tea party group. Let’s shut down the IRS the way the liberals like to shut down god fearing businesses. Through the Courts.
Good luck. The federal government is compromised by the Left, and probably nowhere so thoroughly as in the courts and administrative agencies. The entrenched bureaucracy is even worse than the pandering politicians.
Of course, they should be sued. That’s the way another terrorist organization, the KKK, was shut down. The armed goons of the IRS are much more menacing to the citizens of this country than the KKK was.
Each and every IRS Administrator and every single IRS employee whose name appears on any correspondence or request for further information or who denied any Tea Party group’s application should be named in a RICO suit.
This was a criminal conspiracy.
Let’s not treat this as a simple harassment lawsuit.
These people should all be held PERSONALLY and CRIMINALLY LIABLE and the liability for their actions should not be dropped on the taxpayers. Any class action suit against the IRS would just be paid out by the taxpayers. I want this paid out by the perpetrators. We need to set an example so that this kind of thing never happens again.
They should weld the door shut.
Why not include all of the Dem. Senators and Congressmen that asked the IRS to conduct these illegal requests? Let them invoke immunity and leave the IRS to bear the consequences.
Sue them after they are prosecuted for civil rights violations. Lets see how long they stand behind Obama when they stand to lose everything they have trying to stay out of prison.
Is it actually possible to sue the IRS?
“There may or may not be any basis for restitution by the IRS and the Obama Administration.”
Here’s a simple answer: the IRS should be sued by all affected and made to pay for it. The perpetrators and their bosses fired and their pensions forfeited.
Now, the hundreds of millions of payments will come from our tax money, however, that’s the money to be CUT FROM IRS BUDGET.
The IRS has to layoff people and/or reduce salaries of their agents by that amount and the House SHOULD enforce the IRS budget cut.
“Is it actually possible to sue the IRS?”
You can sue the IRS or individual agents for damages caused by actions that are reckless or that intentionally disregard provisions of the Constitution or tax code in the Tax Court, federal district court or in the United States Court of Federal Claims.
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