Posted on 05/14/2013 7:26:18 AM PDT by mandaladon
Steven Miller is breaking his silence about the scandal that’s engulfing the Internal Revenue Service. Miller, the acting IRS commissioner, is quickly emerging as the focus of fury in Washington after an agency official acknowledged last week that conservative groups seeking nonprofit status were targeted for extra screening if their applications included words such as “tea party” or “patriot.”
In an op-ed published Tuesday in USA Today, he said the agency was simply trying to manage the explosive growth in applications for 501(c)(4) status that started pouring in to the IRS in 2010. "The Internal Revenue Service recognizes that we should have done a better job of handling the influx of applications by advocacy groups," Miller wrote. He denied that politics played a role in the targeting practice. “Mistakes were made, but they were in no way due to any political or partisan motivation,” he wrote. “We are — and will continue to be — dedicated to reviewing all applications for tax-exempt status in an impartial manner.” Miller blamed the mistakes on a "shortcut" the agency used to centralize the thousands of applications for tax-exempt status the agency received in the run-up to the 2012 election.
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Mistakes?
Yet if you make ONE little math error on your tax return...OMG!
Steve Miller?
I see a yellow man, a brown man
A white man, a red man
Lookin’ for Uncle Sam
To give you a helpin’ hand
But everybody’s kickin’ sand
Even politicians
Where are you goin’ to
What are you gonna do
Do you think that it will be easy
Do you think that it will be pleasin’, hey
It’s my freedom
Ah, don’t worry ‘bout me, babe
I got to be free, babe
Hey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFgwPnE_1_8
DEPOPULATE socialists/totalitarians from the body politic. DISMANTLE their agencies. DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic.
live - free - republic
“mistakes were made”
love the passive voice
This guy should be fired, not for being a liar...but for being so stupid he can’t reason. My 6 year old grandson could connect the dots better than this idiot. Put a box of rocks in his chair and save the cost of a salary.
this is what criminals do, they commit crime and I concur with Rand Paul; obozo hussein and his entire administration is nothing but a criminal arm of the mafia and the NWO elites working to take down this country.
“RICO! Haul Big Sis before the Congressional Committee too”
Did I hear that a branch of the armed services wase also told to be on the watch for those groups, too? I’d love for all of the Department “heads” to be jailed along with their master. More dots? Maybe the msm will start to connect the dots and bring it to the publics’ attention since they were targeted themselves with the DOJ getting their phone records.(oh, more dots?)
“Barack Millhous Obama”
The difference between now and 40 years ago is the reporters with the cajones are all women.
It’s not a mistake when a government official commits an act of tyranny, it’s treason.
Everything in this regime is "just a Mistake, I knew nothing about this or you should ask (insert agency here) Mr. "O" take responsibility you lout, You appointed the leaders of these Agencies and Cabinet Offices so therefore you are responsible.... the BUCK stops on your desk!!!!!
A “mistake” is forgetting to carry the 1 while doing addition.
Too bad Al Capone isn’t still around and in his prime. It’d be cool to see these IRS attack dogs in the same cell as Al
FBI...investigate....Prosecute.
Find out who gave the orders for the IRS to commit the crimes.
Congressional Investigation needed. Shut down the IRS and simplify the tax act.Now is the time to do it.
Now I wonder about voter fraud in places like Ohio and Florida. I never jumped on that bandwagon because it sounds like something the delusional people from DU come up with to explain why they loose elections, but now with this IRS stuff it makes me think it’s possible.
you shouldn’t have attached a link to that. you could have taken credit for that astute summation. haha. I was reading that thinking “this person must be a political communication professor.”
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