Posted on 05/15/2013 1:57:27 PM PDT by markomalley
Startling allegations are emerging in the midst of the Internal Revenue Service scandal. Dr. Anne Hendershott, a devout Catholic and a noted sociologist, professor and author, says that she believes she may have been one of the IRS's targets. Hendershott claims that the IRS audited her in 2010 and demanded to know who was paying her and "what their politics were."
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Hendershott says she received a phone in May of that year in which she said she was being audited. A letter that followed on May 19, 2010 solidified the IRS's request to meet her in person two months later in July. The professor told the Blaze that she believes that the situation surrounding hers was more-than-curious.
"The IRS calls my house and says . 'I just wanted to let you know that we're going to be auditing your business' and I said 'My businesses?' and he said, 'You know the expenses you take off for writing," she recalls.
Not operating an entrepreneurial endeavor in the traditional sense, Hendershott was surprised she was being audited on business grounds. Hendershott occasionally freelances for Catholic outlets and for the Wall Street Journal - can this be considered a "business" activity?
"I don't make a lot of money from writing. In fact most years I don't show a profit," she says, adding that the outlets and organizations she has written for haven't paid her a cent.
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They called her at home in a threatening manner! What is this, the Soviet Union?
Fire every last one of them, then dissolve the agency.
Let’s return America to the people.
It ain’t right but this has been going on for a long time. See Clinton Political Audits:
http://rense.com/general24/irs.htm
Then again, Bush political audits: not so much.
As a journalist during WW2 said when he heard that the Gestapo was rounding up nuns and taking them to concentration camps: “Now the bastards have gone too far!” I think we’re approaching that point.
Stories like this are going to be coming out for weeks, probably months. The IRS harassment has been an open secret for years, so there are a million stories out there. I know someone who was audited for being a prominent donor to a Republican gubernatorial candidate, and I’m sure there are tons of FReepers who also were targeted or know people who were. What we’ve heard about this week is just the tip of the iceberg.
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