Posted on 05/18/2013 5:03:32 AM PDT by Libloather
The outgoing head of the IRS disputed Republicans’ suspicions that the tax-collecting agency’s targeting of conservatives was motivated by partisanship at the first congressional hearing on the scandal.
**SNIP**
“I do not believe that partisanship motivated the practices of the people described in the IG report,” Miller said. “I think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people who were trying to be efficient in their work.”
GOP lawmakers also repeatedly sought to ferret out any information as to whether Miller had talked with White House officials about the targeting of conservatives, or – more ominously – had shared confidential tax information with the administration. (The implication of that line of questioning involved last year’s presidential election, when Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s own tax practices became an issue in the election.)
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What people don’t realize is that the IRS rigged the election of 2012 for Obama and the democrats/socialists in the Senate.
The IRS made many conservative groups disband so that they couldn’t do get out the vote . The IRS stole the election. but the media wants to make it seem like it was just low level employees targeting a few conservative groups. no it was intimidating groups with the threat of perjury to make them disband, many of them in battleground states with the goal of rigging the election for Obama and many democrats/socialists congressmen.
The IRS also waited to approve tax exempt status for many groups until after the election. they couldn’t function as they didn’t want to pay taxes on donations
The next time you have to appear at an IRS audit, try apologize for YOUR ‘foolish mistakes’ and see what that will getcha’.
pretty much shreds this arrogant pus talking points
Headline: "IRS targeting scandal: Liberal organizations are angry, too"
The description of and reason for this "anger"? Only these two sentences can in any way be offered as support: "When Jeff Cohen's left-leaning Action for a Progressive Future applied for an IRS tax exemption, the process was too long and too slow, he says. But it was much easier for him than it was for tea party groups."
I hope the committee quickly lets it be known that now is the time to turn “state’s evidence”, because there will be prison for those that don’t.
That’s the neat thing about rats; they will turn on each other at the first indication of personal risk.
PSYOPS - introducing/programming the populace to the totalitarians who will enforce (FORCED) totalitariancare.
TREASON - “acting”/appointed/entrenched unaccountable bureaucrats (socialists) elevating to TOTALITARIAN tactics for the powers that be at their whim.
DISMANTLE the IRS.
TREASON - continuous, PRE-MEDITATED, AGENDA-DRIVEN, in-your-face, media-complicit, AGENCY-ABETTED, REPRESENTATIVE-DIRECTED, ongoing...
DEPOPULATE totalitarians from the body politic. DISMANTLE their system.
DISMANTLE totalitariancare. Plunder & Death.
Totalitariancare and the IRS go together like a murder scene and a suspect.
Aid, comfort, paychecks, bonuses, pensions, perks to domestic enemies never defined or envisioned by the founders.
How to Identify Legal Plunder
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
The Law Defends Plunder
But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. In short, there is a legal plunder...
This legal plunder may be only an isolated stain among the legislative measures of the people. If so, it is best to wipe it out with a minimum of speeches and denunciations — and in spite of the uproar of the vested interests.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder
live - free - republic
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Alter it.
MISTAKE?!!!!!
When we make a mistake we get a do-not-ignore letter from these gestapo agents!
Bad customer service!!!!!?
Bad customer service is when the checkout clerk at your local store doesn’t know the price of an item.
Only the DNC is allowed to overreach like the so called Chaney scandal.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Why don’t the Tea Parties file Civil Rights law suits. In my mind there is a clear violation of civil rights. Civil Rights suits have a provision where the government pay for the costs.
This perfectly illustrates the absolute contempt these miserable bureaucrats have for the American taxpayer.
They truly think we are stupid.
Post of the week!
Law suits accomplish nothing. The crime had it’s unovertunable result. The election was won. Nothing can be done to change that result.
At a minimum, there must be massive prosecution and imprisonment and if at all possible executions and death.
The Presidency must be destroyed and all associated must be impoverished
The crimes of treacherous tyranny have no penalty that is too great
As Bill Clinton said when his White House was caught with 408 personal FBI files: “It was just an innocent bureaucratic snafu.”
Shulman was a Dem and had been a big activist under Clinton. Bush just about knocked himself out trying to be “bipartisan” and it got him nowhere. He thought appointing a Dem to a (theoretically) apolitical position would show his good will. To them, it showed his weakness.
Well, that’s true, from the IRS’ point of view, he’s a better deflecter. But the GOP should insist on getting the people who were actually involved in both the practice itself and in the cover-up of it after the IG report.
The Ruling Class will do what it always does: re-arrange the deck chairs. This guy will resign and end up in another cushy government job, and some other DB will take his place. Nobody will go to jail, or suffer any real consequences at all. There will be some speeches full of feigned outrage, and that will be the end of it. It will go on until a few million citizens show up in D.C. with guns and rope and clean out that rat’s nest.
I scrounged around a little for “irs scandal liberal”. The bottom line: Indeed, any suggestion or even a thought that liberal groups were “targeted” in any way comparable to Tea Party groups is so laughably insane that you should have your own MSNBC show.
Here are the very best, and so far, the only, examples that the battiest of moonbats have managed to come up with:
“Emerge America, a group which helps Democratic women seeking elected office, said it lost it tax-exempt status last October. The IRS invoked the “private benefit doctrine” barring 501(c)(4) status for any group promoting a candidate or political party.”
“In June the IRS said it denied 501(c)(4) tax-exemption for an unnamed political group also under the private benefit doctrine. The IRS is barred by law from disclosing the group’s name and the group has not publicly identified itself. The group had one objective: to serve the political goals of its founder, the IRS said.”
http://www.politicususa.com/gop-scandal-falls-irs-targeted-liberals-2012.html
“Progress Texas, another of the organizations, faced the same lines of questioning as the Tea Party groups from the same IRS office that issued letters to the Republican-friendly applicants.” (BTW good luck trying to find out what “Progress Texas” is or does from any article anywhere.)
(and a little more on “Emerge America”: “In early 2011, the IRS denied the tax-exempt status of an affiliate of the San Francisco-based Emerge America, which trains Democratic women to run for office. The agency said it was disqualified because the group’s activities were “conducted primarily for the benefit of a political party and a private group of individuals, rather than the community as a whole.” “)
“A third group, Clean Elections Texas, which supports public funding of campaigns, also received IRS inquiries.”
(We all know that “Clean Elections” would be an obvious indicator that it’s a far-left organization, now don’t we. — jiggyboy)
So the entire universe of “targetws liberal organizations” seems to be these four. Two of them appear to have been properly denied as being front organizations for electing specific individuals, and one had a name more typical of a Tea-Party-like organization.
Or maybe the Rove White House didn’t object to persecuting actual conservatives.
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