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The Woman Behind the IRS/ObamaCare Nightmare
Townhall.com ^ | May 16, 2013 | Carol Platt Liebau

Posted on 05/16/2013 5:24:30 PM PDT by jazusamo

ABC News is reporting that the woman who was the head of the tax-exempt organizations division of the IRS during the time conservative groups were targeted is now director of the IRS' ObamaCare office .

You can't make this stuff up.

So who is Sarah Hall Ingram?

Well, she was appointed as Commissioner of the Tax-Exempt and Government Entitles Division of the IRS in 2009 . Before that, she was the deputy commissioner, and before that, she was Division Counsel/Associate Chief Counsel for that division. She began her career with the IRS in 1982, in the Tax Litigation Division. She is a 1979 graduate of Yale and a 1982 graduate of Georgetown Law -- which means that (1) she was obviously aware of just how unconstitutional and wrongful the targeting scheme was and (2) she has never worked for anyone, anywhere, except for the IRS.

Ironically, Ingram has touted the importance of "transparency" to the proper governance of non-profits. Her remarks suggest that she s ees the IRS in a strong, activist role promoting what the IRS considers to be "good governance" of non-profits.

It's interesting -- and potentially significant -- that she was put in charge of the ObamaCare IRS office. Did someone in the administration know she could be trusted to play political hardball? Was the post a reward for her service at the IRS? Whose idea was this nomination? How far up the chain was it approved?

Certainly, someone (again, whom?) liked the work she did between 2009 and 2012 at the IRS; Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner reports that she was richly rewarded:

Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.

The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harrassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request.

So who was in charge of those decisions? The questions -- just like all the appalling administration news -- just keeps coming.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: corruption; ingram; irs; irsscandal; obama; obamacare; sarahhallingram; sarahingram
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1 posted on 05/16/2013 5:24:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

:-P


2 posted on 05/16/2013 5:26:37 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: jazusamo

Is she also behind the 10 million medical records issue too ..??


3 posted on 05/16/2013 5:27:12 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth" (in spite of BO))
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To: jazusamo

She was REWARDED for breaking the Law.

Inquiring minds wonder how many MILLIONS of Americans
have been criminally hurt by her over decades as she
“earned” her way up as a hatchetwoman for the DNC.


4 posted on 05/16/2013 5:29:45 PM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: jazusamo

Also, every democrat admin always says, “... we’re going to be the most transparent admin in history”.

THEY DO THAT AS AN INFERENCE THAT THE PREVIOUS GUY WAS NOT TRANSPARENT .. even if they were.

It’s more of the democrat double-speak.


5 posted on 05/16/2013 5:30:01 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth" (in spite of BO))
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To: jazusamo

Does she have a Weiner?


6 posted on 05/16/2013 5:31:03 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: jazusamo

This is the ONLY photo of her on the net.

Yet she knows you better than your own mother does.

7 posted on 05/16/2013 5:32:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: jazusamo

She looks like SNL Dana Carvey’s church lady.


8 posted on 05/16/2013 5:34:05 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
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To: gaijin
This is the ONLY photo of her on the net.

At first I thought you were joking and posted something from an SNL skit.
9 posted on 05/16/2013 5:34:31 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Perdogg

not quite as sexy.....


10 posted on 05/16/2013 5:34:47 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Diogenesis; CyberAnt
Yep, looks like she's been richly rewarded for her “service” to Obama and his most “transparent” administration, hatchetwoman sounds warranted.
11 posted on 05/16/2013 5:34:57 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: gaijin

Wow! Not much else to say.


12 posted on 05/16/2013 5:36:53 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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13 posted on 05/16/2013 5:42:19 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

I tried to find her on Wikipedia and she’s not there.


14 posted on 05/16/2013 5:44:17 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie
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To: jazusamo
You can't make this stuff up.

Yeah.

15 posted on 05/16/2013 5:46:02 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Cyprus - the beginning)
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16 posted on 05/16/2013 5:49:50 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo
Thanks!

By their words and attitudes, this President, his non-stop campaign organization, his Administration, the former Democrat Speaker, Pelosi, and Senate Leader Reid created an atmosphere of contempt for the millions of Americans who self-identified as part of a Taxed Enough Enough Already movement.

Pelosi called them "astro-turf." Others identified them in other, and sometimes worse, terms, but all discounted their efforts, failing to acknowledge them as American citizens whose understanding of their Constitutional rights was motivating them to speak freely of their concerns.

Why would anyone be surprised that such "progressive" contempt would translate itself into action by the department of the government which implements tax policy?

The wisdom of America's Founders did not overlook the possibility that "artful" (Washington) politicians might make attempts to overreach the "constraints" (Obama) of the Constitution and its limits on their coercive power.

With reference to to the kind of citizens involved in the so-called "Tea Party movement" and targeted by the Internal Revenue Service under President Obama's Administration might remind us of an essay from "Our Ageless Constitution," a volume originally published in 1987, the Bicentennial Year of our Constitution. The essay describes the America's Founders' concept of "responsibility of citizens" to preserve liberty--a concept which seems to describe what, today, would be a "complete conservative."

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CITIZENS

"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature." - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787
17 posted on 05/16/2013 5:51:01 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: jazusamo

Bookmark


18 posted on 05/16/2013 5:51:42 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: gaijin

Ugly B*&^CH isn’t she?


19 posted on 05/16/2013 5:52:57 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: jazusamo

https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/pulpit-perfidy-more-misinformation-in-the-wake-of-%E2%80%98pulpit-freedom-sunday%E2%80%99

“We have churches under audit” - Sarah Hall Ingram. They love her at Barry Lynn’s scum-bag site. So ... what churches were audited. I want to understand that better. I don’t know of any Tea Party named churches so they will have to come up with a different excuse


20 posted on 05/16/2013 5:53:14 PM PDT by plain talk
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