IRS scandal : America needs the truth

CNN ^ | Sept 4, 2013 | Ken Boehm

[Innovative]

America can handle the truth. Even if that truth could include a coverup at the powerful IRS.

The IRS mission statement pledges to "enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all."

But public scrutiny has revealed details indicating a level of politicization totally at odds with that.

Look at the two eye-opening developments that have happened at the IRS since May: An acting IRS commissioner resigned, and another powerful IRS official refused to answer questions before Congress, pleading the Fifth Amendment.

Whatever is going on, there is only one way to proceed, and that is a professional and thorough investigation.

[Innovative]

This is at CNN!

I just saw pigs flying by. ;)

[GeronL]

It is still going on I bet.

[Pajamajan]

"This is at CNN!"

I just saw the devil ice skating.

[rdcbn]

When the time comes to take down Obama, it will be the Democrats and his supporters that do it, not the Republicans or Tea Party.

Obama is really disliked by a Bi Partisan majority in Congress and a large part Washington. He very few friends, and a reputation for betraying friends and allies at the drop of a hat.

As soon as he is more trouble to them than he is worth, the Democrats will turn on him in a heart beat

[rdcbn]

You will hear about it first on CNN

[Revolting cat!]

I just saw adynata flying with iceskates on!

[glorgau]

They’re obviously racist.

[Innovative]

“It is still going on I bet.”

I agree.

IRS continues to hound Tea Party Patriots, demands more data for tax-exempt status

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/29/irs-continues-to-hound-tea-party-patriots/print/

In 2012, IRS & DOJ Aided Pro-Obama Nonprofits

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2013/09/06/irs-favoritism-for-proobama-nonprofits-n1693674

[TChad]

Whatever is going on, there is only one way to proceed, and that is a professional and thorough investigation...

...by a Blue Ribbon Commission of famous Democrats and RINOS who will officially find NOTHING TO SEE HERE after a six-month "investigation" so things to continue EXACTLY as they are and everyone on the commission can go to the Prime Rib on K Street and have that MAGNIFICENT filet mignon or maybe the salmon. The salmon is always good.

[NonValueAdded]

Newsflash! The State Department declares Obama responsible for the IRS scandal: "We ultimately, of course, hold President Assad Obama responsible for the use of chemical weapons the IRS by his regime against his own people, regardless of where the command and control lies," Harf said.

[Innovative]

CNN article:

[Fungi]

Pigs you say? I saw crocodiles, hippos, and extinct dinosaurs. How does that work?

[Innovative]

“Pigs you say? I saw crocodiles, hippos, and extinct dinosaurs. How does that work?’

Well, CNN criticizing Obama may result in all the wild animals, not just pigs, flying by... ;)

[Slyfox]

Did I hear someone say pigs flying?

[Veto!]

Cute. Bacon parachuting in.

[D Rider]

Hey you Whitehouse, ha ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse, ha ha, charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
You're nearly a real treat
All tight lips and cold feet
And do you feel abused?

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Welcome to the machine

[Carry_Okie]

Pretending that this pattern of political harassment and intimidation is confined to the IRS is a ruse. Considering that OSHA (Commerce), the EPA, and the ATF (Treasury) were also participating in the pattern shows that there is only ONE (1) place where those lines of authority meet:

The White House. That is where this investigation should focus.

[Ann Archy]

PAGING DARRELL ISSA!!!

[RayChuang88]

Here's the truth on why the income tax code as it currently stands is a horrible idea:

1. 30,000 tax lobbyists--HALF the lobbyists in Washington, DC--fighting for every scrap of a tax loophole. And you get political corruption on a huge scale over this.
2. The result is a tax code over 70,000 pages long so complex that it makes James Joyce's Finnegans Wake almost easy to read in comparison. Even the IRS can't figure out much of the tax code!
3. The sheer complexity means exorbitant yearly compliance costs, estimated by some economists to soon approach US$500 BILLION per year (and climbing fast in each subsequent year, especially with the impostion of Obamacare mandates through the tax code).
4. It also encourages the outsourcing of millions of jobs, thousands of factories, and hundreds of corporate headquarters for tax avoidance reasons.
5. It results in (by some estimates) around US$15 TRILLION on American-owned liquid assets sitting in offshore financial centers and other foreign banks for tax avoidance reasons (care to explain all those banks in the Cayman Islands, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, and so on?).
6. Government uses the tax code as a political instrument to favor or punish political constituencies as little as ONE taxpaying entity. The recent scandal using the IRS to target conservative 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) groups is clear proof of this.
7. Because the IRS needs to know intimate details of personal and business financial records in tax return filings, there are potentially serious issues with invasion of privacy. Care to explain why former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's private tax returns ended up in the offices of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)?
8. The IRS assumes you're guilty of tax evasion, and you end up having less rights than most common criminals!

Given these issues, it's time that we need to dismantle the most unloved of Federal agencies and replace the income tax code with something that does not interfere with the process of earning money. And that solution is simple: