Posted on 06/05/2013 8:00:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As usual, the Congress is all over a scandal after the fact. The hearings on the IRS fiasco are good theatre and admittedly necessary; but where were the Republicans, not only over the past three years that the IRS was targeting conservative groups, but over the past three decades as the more and more power was granted to this same agency -- an agency with the potential to be transformed into a de facto secret police.
The Republicans were, by consistently agreeing to more complexities in the tax code and the need for stringent tax enforcement due to ever expanding government expenditures, complicit in the creation of a bureaucracy now out of control.
While tax reform is always a good item for inclusion in the Party's platform and sounds great on the campaign trail, it has never been seriously attempted as the nearly 74,000 pages of the tax code is one of the foundational elements of power in Washington D.C. Within that immense waste of paper there is essentially something for everyone who can influence those in Congress, either Republican or Democrat, to insert a favorable provision for their clients.
Those in Congress receive in return either campaign contributions or other favorable emoluments to guarantee re-election or a more pleasant standard of living. It is understandable that the Democrats, as the party of tax and spend as well as an all-powerful central government, would view the tax code and its enforcement arm, the IRS, as vital to their end-game. However, when the Republicans controlled the White House and one or both houses of Congress, they never seriously proposed any significant change to the tax code and paid little or no attention to evolving near-fascist mindset within the IRS.
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I don’t doubt it but its never too late for redemption even if we have to force it.
Republicans: As a result of our hearings, we have changed procedure code XJ3 of the IRS code which will force the IRS to do better. Case closed.
Defund the IRS.
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