Posted on 06/13/2021 6:37:31 AM PDT by karpov
The lesson of this week’s leak of billionaires’ tax returns isn’t that taxes are too low, the rich should pay more or any of the other claims the leak was designed to support. The lesson is that Republicans must realize that Democrats are no longer their only political foe. They face an equally potent and dangerous federal bureaucracy—committed to destroying GOP officials and propelling a liberal agenda.
ProPublica claims not to know who provided the confidential tax data of thousands of American citizens, including some of the nation’s wealthiest people. The left-leaning media outlet acknowledges it ran its piece even though its source could have been a “state actor hostile to American interests” that hacked the private data. Perhaps—though it’s unclear what value Russia or China might see in outing Warren Buffett’s tax returns.
The more likely scenario is that a federal employee with access to Internal Revenue Service records compiled the information, identified a media operation that could be relied on to disregard privacy rights and then dumped the data at a moment carefully timed to aid Joe Biden’s tax-hike agenda.
Mission accomplished. The ProPublica story was a moralizing snoozefest, thousands of words (and the threat of more installments) to explain that the U.S. tax code allows deductions for loan interest, charitable giving and business expenses, and that the nation’s elite actually use these deductions. Also, ProPublica informs us that people don’t pay tax on capital gains until they realize capital gains. The nation’s liberal and social media nonetheless spent the week dutifully pretending the story was a blockbuster exposé breaking the news that the wealthy don’t pay their “fair” share, while Democrats renewed calls for higher taxes.
The politicization of the federal bureaucracy is nothing new.
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They already have, and yours, too.
Seems to me on this subject the past is prologue to the future.
Water is wet.The government wants to disarm us after 245 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!
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Yes.
Fire them all and let starvation and homelessness sort them out.
From a country where government needed permission to do anything and the people didn’t to one where people need license to do mos5 anything but government does as it pleases.
This was not progress.
Would the bear ‘spit’ on Main Street if it were inconvenient to find a patch of woods???
WSJ. On top of the story as usual.
I picture guys in suits and cardigans...pipes, cigars, “Harrumph. er what about this Lois Lerner thing?”
“Eh, fellas, that’s From the obs...”
“Yes, fine, Jack. Put that in on page two. It’s hot.”
The progressives define it as progress...
The progressives are inherently regressive, from the early days of “progressivism” intent on hauling this nation back from and away from the genius of its founding,
Does a bear crap in the woods? Is the antipope a heretic?
The left bases everything on the lie, and the propagation and preservation of that lie.
The more likely scenario is that a federal employee with access to Internal Revenue Service records compiled the information,……..
And that federal employee had to…..Login with a UserID and Password.
That federal employee created a date and time stamp as to when and where the data was accessed from
That federal employee had to use some sort of access card, which also created a date and time stamp, to get into their workplace. Last time I went to the IRS office it was metal detector, wands and armed guards.
Ergo, if they wanted to find out who did it, they could. But they’re all in cahoots and no one cares as long as it furthers the agenda. Or at least tries to.
However, was the media, etc this mad about President Trump’s returns being leaked? I must have missed that.
Agree.
The IRS already has a scurrilous record of unethical activities denying or endlessly delaying 501(c)(3) status for Conservative/Republican organizations while Democrat Terrorist organizations get it the day they apply.
“They already have, and yours, too.”
We had several friends who owned their own business or were professionals on their own, who were under constant audit during the Clinton years.
Many got released after GW became president, and they showed the irs auditors “signed” pictures of President GW with Chaney and thank you letters for their support and left them with the IRS fascist Nazis.
There are any number of tenured professors, politicians, and journalists who would answer 'no'.
Democrats are in charge, and as long as they are the IRS is, and indeed all federal agencies are, simon-pure.
This will flip, without the slightest scintilla of cognitive dissonance or sense of irony, the instant republicans have a hint of power, to an unqualified yes.
The lesson of this week’s leak of billionaires’ tax returns isn’t that taxes are too low, the rich should pay more or any of the other claims the leak was designed to support. The lesson is that Republicans must realize that Democrats are no longer their only political foe. They face an equally potent and dangerous federal bureaucracy—committed to destroying GOP officials and propelling a liberal agenda.
Cry me a river. The GOP had FOUR YEARS to provide substantive oversight of these progressive Democrat bureaucrats. What did they do? NOTHING. Why? Because they hated Trump and us more than they love their country. The GOP did nothing short of green light the Deep State coup against us. Worse, most likely.
The GOP has made their own bed. Now they get to lay in it.
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