Johnny Paycheck -- Me and the IRS
Posted on 04/20/2016 1:58:50 PM PDT by markomalley
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have enough time to purchase and use a controversial piece of spy equipment, but not enough to collect $385 billion in unpaid taxes.
That’s what Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said Tuesday during a House Task Force on Executive Overreach hearing, criticizing the IRS for purchasing cell tower-mimicking Stingray equipment that can track cell phone locations.
The federal deficit in fiscal year 2015 was $486 billion. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) gave the IRS 112 recommendations for capturing more of the $385 billion now going uncollected, but the IRS has only completed 62.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen admitted in December his agency purchased and used Stingray technology to track 37 phones in 11 grand jury investigations. The IRS had one Stingray device last year, but was in the process of purchasing another, Koskinen said. The technology mimics a cell tower to force nearby phones onto its network instead of the carrier’s network, allowing the phones’ locations to be tracked. Some of the Stingray devices can also record calls.
“So the very agency that has a $385 billion tax gap can’t even do half of the recommendations GAO says you should do to accomplish your fundamental mission, [but] has time to target people for exercising their First Amendment liberties,” Jordan said during the hearing.
Jordan urged the IRS to do its job.
“This is the fundamental mission of the Internal Revenue Service, is actually to collect the tax revenue due the federal treasury,” Jordan said. “That is what their job is and they are failing to the tune of $385 billion a year.”
Jim Jordan “you are our hired thugs, do your jobs”!!
GOP Congressman: IRS Too Busy Spying On Americans To Do Its Job
And We in Congress are too LAZY, CORRUPT, And Morally Bankrupt to do Our JOB!!!!!
Just another DOG AND PONY SHOW!
If He or They were SERIOUS, an Immediate Vote for CONTEMPT of CONGRESS would be Taken, and then the Attorney should have been LOCKED UP FOR CONTEMPT. 6 Months ought to do the trick.
QUIT LYING, You Have ALL the Necessary Tools and Authority to get to the Bottom of ANYTHING you so Desire.
These SENATORS and CONGRESSMEN have the ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY to get All the Answers they wish and they can act on those answers as they wish. Instead they JUST WHINE AND BITCH, while DOING NOTHING!:
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
The IRS is ONLY doing what McCain and the criminal
illegals Ordered them to do, as Issa agreed to
cover it all up. THEY ARE CRIMINALS and not one
person is in jail; in fact they are re-hired and
given raises.
Where is the accountability?
Where is the transparency?
There is more in N. Korea.
Many Federal employees owe taxes... allegedly more than private sector employees of the same income level.
The next President should fire all of them and thus reduce the payroll. Any critical vacancies would be filled by musical chairs of existing survivors with no new bureaucrats brought in as replacements.
Of course, this is separate from those outside civil service the President can appoint.
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