They need to drop the first "Y".
Posted on 05/19/2013 3:14:13 PM PDT by Alex Baker
This is a woman we will need to learn much more about in the coming weeks. Sarah Hall Ingram is a highly valued employee at the IRS. In the last three years she has received $103,390 in bonuses for her excellent work. She was the Commissioner of the Tax-Exempt and Government Entitles Division. Under her leadership, groups that expressed a fear of large, out-of-control government were systematically crushed by her branch of our large, out-of-control government. They were specifically singled out for harassment for political reasons. Secret information about the conservative applicants was leaked to leftist opposition groups to facilitate further harassment.
This was an organized political operation using State power to silence opposition voices. It is part of every tyrant’s playbook. It tells you everything you need to know about the current state of our country to see that those who favor a limited government, the explicit goal of our founding documents, are now considered enemies of the State.
In a 2009 speech, Ms. Ingram explained her approach:
“As a practical matter, we cannot subject every application for tax-exempt status to a painstaking, leave-no-rock-unturned review. Nor can we audit every organization’s 990 every year. Nor would you want us to do so, right? To govern is to choose, and we must choose appropriately which applications or 990s to focus most attention on.”
It is clear now that by “choose appropriately”, she meant to harass the limited-government groups endlessly and let liberal and Islamic groups sail right through the approval process.
The good news is that this woman is no longer in charge of that department. The bad news is that she has been promoted and is now the head of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office. She and her comrades could have access to all your medical records. They will “choose appropriately” who has trouble with the State controlled medical system and who sails right through. They will decide if it is appropriate to share your medical history with others.
But don’t worry. I heard the outgoing IRS Commissioner say in hearings this morning before Congress that he has reviewed the situation and found that there was “no partisanship” in the years-long practice of singling out conservative groups for IRS harassment. None at all. There is just no reason to think that specifically targeting one side of the political spectrum had anything to do with politics.
And when Commissioner Steven Miller was asked why conservative groups were targeted for prolonged scrutiny, he said that it just happened because people were trying to be efficient. Sure. Months and months of delays with endless demands for more paperwork is the efficient way to go.
Miller was forced to admit that secret information gathered from certain conservative groups was passed along by the IRS to the conservatives direct political opposition. So the IRS illegally gathered information and illegally passed it along for political reasons. Mr. Miller said that these actions were “inadvertent”.
There is more evidence of direct lies from IRS officials in Kevin Williamson’s column, “The Nine Lies of Lois Lerner”. One thing we learn from Williamson’s article is that the current campaign by some officials to act surprised and disappointed by the news of IRS criminality is just a scam to deflect their own culpability. Everyone knew the Inspector General’s report on the IRS was about to be released. The IRS needed to jump ahead of the report and act concerned. They were not concerned for years prior to being caught.
UPDATE – Jeffrey Lord explains why the problem with the IRS is much deeper than the current scandal. Read “The Liberal Union Behind the IRS” and you will see why the IRS has it’s artillery aimed in one direction. They are a powerful battle-group in the leftist army. That will not change until something like the Fair Tax is enacted and the IRS is dismantled.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/this_is_what_tyranny_looks_like_comments.html
She is scary. She also looks like a bad imitation of SNL “Church Lady”.
She is very scary. When is the GOP going to bring her to the hill and
put her under oath? Sooner than later, I hope. A nice jail cell awaits you
Ingram.
103K in bonuses. That is shocking too. That’s more in bonus than two-thirds of the country makes a year. Plus i’m sure she has great benefits. The government drones really are becoming the governing aristocratic class.
They need to drop the first "Y".
Hope so. It’s time for these people to go to jail.
Better shut your mouth if you want us to fix your kid.
Unfortunately I do not think the establishment GOP wants to give up the control the current tax code affords much more than do the democrats.
It looks like a man to me.
A reckoning is coming.
Ms. Ingram could pass for one of the female Nazi Death Camp guards.
If it had turned out that George Bush had conspired with the conservative members of SCOTUS -- and there was no hint of politics in the Flordia supreme court (highly unlikely IMO) -- then what happened in 2000 would be just as bad as what Obama pulled off in 2012. A complete violation of the public trust.
The concept of the public trust relates back to the origins of democratic government and its seminal idea that within the public lies the true power and future of a society; therefore, whatever trust the public places in its officials must be respected. Even wiki graffiti agrees that public trust does not mean any damn thing that Obama mmmm mmmm mmm wants.
Or as it was written 40 years ago:
In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
She’s a lesbian. Imagine that.
She wasn’t working alone
I’m getting old. I must change my party affiliation to Democrat. Might as well, my new district is a safe Dem seat.
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