Coburn: Constituents link IRS audits to Mitt Romney donations [our whistleblower side is lit up]

The Hill ^

[txhurl]

Kinda surprised Megyn hasn’t mentioned this yet.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I say this election was illicit then. And if it can be proven the admitted foreign born twice unconstitutionally elected Kenyan was involved (and he was but we need proof), then he should be impeached. But being that we no longer have a GOP but a RINO party, that will not happen which is why we have an admitted foreign born unconstitutionally elected Kenyan as POTUS in the first place.

[RepRivFarm]

I want to see LARGE NUMBERS of IRS employees and Obama Regime officials heading to jail. I strongly suspect that “Tax Agents” will be as popular in prison as child molesters are.

Get used to disappointment

What you are wishing for could only happen in a country ruled by laws. That country is dead. The GOP will help sweep this under the rug....even though they were targeted by this. Why? I just don't know.

I weep for my country.

[Wisconsinlady]

http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?p=irs-targeting-texans#Form

[Wisconsinlady]

http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?p=irs-targeting-texans#Form

[Wisconsinlady]

http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?p=irs-targeting-texans#Form

[MortMan]

Actually - if you correlate donation amounts between Romney and Obama donors, with a secondary income band correlation, you would (in my opinion) see a five hundred to a thousand percent difference in audit risk. The numbers are pure guess work - but I’m confident they’re in the ball park.

[txhurl]

This seems too hot to cover already. The items FNC deems worthy of a BREAKING ALERT is strange... if you’re covering the IRS live, as Megyn is, can’t you slip Coburn’s story in?

I guess everybody’s on the phone with him right now.

[b4its2late]

There is no critical mass for 0 tho. He's hands off, intentionally.

[txhurl]

THANK YOU!

[Blood of Tyrants]

This is EXACTLY the kind of abuse of power by the executive branch that the founders sought to prevent.

[Raycpa]

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) in a floor speech last week also said that a number of his constituents spoke of being audited during the 2012 presidential campaign for the first time.

Most people are only audited once. Audits are happening all the time. Automatic audits from matching income are increasing in frequency because the IRS is matching more data every year.

[lwd]

Congress should ask for the IRS’s internet records and see who all was going to donation sites like opensecrets.org (which should be blocked from gov’t computers imo)

[Cap Huff]

Even Coburn seems to want to stop short of saying that the singling out of Romney donors is a fact, but it does make everyone wonder.

Indeed the big story here is that the IRS is fast losing any credibility for being impartial. Most people have had some apprehension about the IRS, and most probably inherently dislike it (no one likes to pay taxes), but this will spread fear and complete distrust.

[EBH]

but this will spread fear and complete distrust.

But will it spread a real tax revolt? How do you like your TEA...one lump or two?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Targeting the wealthy also seems inappropriate. The law should apply equally to all taxpayers, not just those above a certain income level.
Irrespective of that, there are plenty of rich Obama contributors. It would be easy enough to determine the relative rate of auditing for each income group of each party.

[GraceG]

I think we should go print out some of those “Tax Closure” notioces that they love to plaster on the front doors of businesses when they close them down....

We should print them out and then go to our local IRS offices and tape them to their windows and doors as a protest.....

But they would send in DHS and probabaly have us all hauled away....

[RedMDer]

WE ARE FREE REPUBLIC!
You are Free Republic.
There are no outside influences.
No advertisers.
Just us, all of us.
Please Contribute Today!

[Cap Huff]

“tax revolt?” Maybe, but I think this is going to not only reinvigorate the Tea Party movement, it will bring some others into more active criticism of tax systems.

The whole reason the administration went so hard, so long against the Tea Party people is that they posed a real, existential threat. They have awakened the movement, I think.

[pabianice]

You’re dreaming. Obama is going to pardon all IRS workers who have committed felonies.