Well of course he would. No bureaucrat wants the cushy government job and pension to go away. So they will use the power of the state to crush anyone who suggests such a thing.
The answer to the IRS will be the IRS ... i.e. as long as we have taxation, somebody’s got to administer it, even if it is no longer an income tax, or at least an income tax as we know it.
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Fascism in action. The employee needs to tracked down and brought before the court.
Using government as a weapon should result in the death penalty for violation of civil rights and acts of war.
So what was the response from the guest attorney dude?
Another low-level IRS employee bucking for a promotion... it probably worked too.
Anyone can call in anonymously to CSPAN, claim to be the IRS and make those statements and it's meaningless.
I've no doubt in my mind what that caller said actually does in fact happen, but absent a name, proof, testimony under oath, etc. I can prove nothing.
Wish the fellow would come over to my house for a short fishing trip.....VA Sexretary too!!!!!!
Of course, the idiot doesn’t realize that vindictive behavior like this is just one of the reasons people want to abolish the IRS.
He’s nothing but a high school bully that never grew up.
Duh. Why would some tinpot bureaucracy willingly allow anyone to put their gravy train at risk?
It’s like applying for a protest permit from the NYPD and posting online that the goal of your group is to shutdown the NYPD.
So the question becomes: how does one get past such a conflict of interest? When the very group your are against has to sign off on your rights...
The Dem Government way to handle this would be to take note of the incoming caller’s telephone ID and even the books later.
Wow this is big news! Thanks for posting this!
At a cocktail party back in the late 80’s, I struck up a conversation with a fellow — his name was Joe M. — whom I’d met on one or two previous events. After my first encounter, Joe’s neighbor and my boss at the time told me that Joe was an alcoholic who had just retired from 25 years with the IRS. Needless to say, I was guarded in expressing my political views to Joe as the IRS had hounded my dad into an early grave in 1977 — at age 59 – over an otherwise trivial estate matter.
Joe was pretty deep into his cups at the function in question and began telling IRS “war stories.” Most had to do with clear cases of criminal conduct aimed at OTHER citizens by not very nice people. Joe — who was a few years short of 60 — sounded to me like someone who enjoyed helping getting really Service” had changed for the worse. Then I asked him about the new people coming in. He shook his head, actually teared up and said that many of them were “really bad.” I pressed. “Really bad” meant incompetent? “No — DANGEROUS,” he responded “they like to hurt people.”
It was then that I think I understood why Joe drank.
Something to think about as the body count among those IRS targeted conservative organizations – not to mention those troublesome individual “Patriots” (now classified by fedzillas as “Terrorists”) — grows.
The IRS is as corrupt as the rest of the government has become. Of course they target individuals and groups. They weaponized the IRS long ago and their hired guns will go after you if you step out of line and they they decide they do not like you.
The IRS runs Obamacare. If you end IRS, you’d end Obamacare and we can’t have THAT!
When will America get that outside its constitutional limited authority, the feds are totalitarian, perverse, homicidal maniacs and the states have every constitutional and legal right to have NONE of it?
Our #1 greatest political problem in America is the $4 TRILLION MOSTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. If people don’t get that then they don’t get anything as far as political freedom and future goes.
I hope America wakes up soon to the monster that is poised to destroy her and instead destroys most of the beast with the only legal weapon of freedom at their disposal: THE CONSTITUTION.
Self defense is understandable. Not acceptable in this case, though.
Every gumbint schmoe tries to perpetuate and justify his or her position. Unlike the private sector worker who quickly runs out of their own money, and thus can only cause very limited damage, the government can pretend that other people’s money is unlimited.
Koskinen and his minions are OUT OF CONTROL and need to be ARRESTED!! Alas....the Pubbies will NEVER do it! COWARDS.