Posted on 05/19/2013 1:53:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's often been said the Internal Revenue Service is the most feared bureaucracy in the United States.
Little wonder.
As the agency openly proclaims on their own website, concerning what actions they might take if your taxes are unpaid:
We could seize and sell property that you hold (such as your car, boat, or house), or we could levy property that is yours but is held by someone else (such as your wages, retirement accounts, dividends, bank accounts, licenses, rental income, accounts receivables, the cash loan value of your life insurance, or commissions).
You could even wind up in jail like Al Capone, who found that not paying taxes brought down more wrath and judgment from the government than murder.
But recent events have given Americans even more reason for fear.
Deep in the subterranean bowels of the IRS, there are electronic folders full of deeply personal, private information about nearly every American and every tax exempt organization. We now know this treasure trove of information is exponentially expanding and has been put to the use for the aims of a corrupt administration interested in crippling political opposition such as the Tea Party movement.
The harassment of the Richmond Tea Party group, which applied for tax exempt status, exemplifies the badgering many conservative groups have received over the last few years. A long letter from the IRS to the organization includes an almost impossible list of requirements demanded by lackeys who obviously invented as many obstacles as possible to prevent conservative organizations from achieving tax exempt status.
In the letter, the IRS admitted the group had already provided "thorough responses" in its 2009 application, but stated that "unfortunately, we need the following for the period of 2010 to now..." Among the plethora of demands for information from October 2010 on:(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Inside the body of every card-carrying liberal beats the heart of a potential, totalitarian leftist. Liberals do not love government for nothing. Love of big government is related to sort of an infantile yearning to be ruled by others or a Big Brother-Orwellian kind of supreme leader. Obviously, not all libs think that way, but a very sizable percentage do. It is the childish urge for utopia...a place that is literally nowhere.
Amid scandals, White House announces star-studded concert in East Room
Posted By Caroline May On 12:05 PM 05/17/2013 In Politics | No Comments
Amid sequester and scandal in Washington, the White House announced Friday that the president and first lady will be hosting another concert as part of their “In Performance at the White House” series later this month.
The event will be held in the East Room of the White House and honor singer and songwriter Carole King, who will be awarded the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. King will be the first woman to receive the award, the White House noted in their announcement.
The program — to be streamed on the White House website and broadcast on PBS stations the evening of May 28 — will also feature performances by Gloria Estefan, Billy Joel, Jesse McCartney, Emeli Sandé, James Taylor, Trisha Yearwood and King herself.
Money quote.
Can anyone ID the guy in the picture? Those kinds of ‘threats’ are usually from democrats pretending to be conservatives. Notice the beard?
Then there's this one:
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