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IRS Implications

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I’m suspecting that a lot of Democrats are going to come to regret, sooner than later, making the IRS a central player in #ObamaCare.

[Update a few minutes later]

[Update a while later]\

OK, you wanted a link? Here‘s a link to several.

I like this:

Government investigators have found that the Internal Revenue Service scrutinized conservative groups for raising political concerns over government spending, debt and taxes or even for advocating making America a better place to live, according to new details likely to inflame a widening IRS controversy.

Emphasis mine.

How subversive. They are history’s monsters.

23 thoughts on “IRS Implications”

  5. Why would they regret it? You don’t really think there will be that much outrage, do you? Old Media will down play it, drag it out, and Obama supporters (from evidence so far) see nothing wrong with the IRS cracking down on extremists like Tea Partiers or conservatives. The only people who will care already don’t vote for the Democratic Party.

  6. Are people actually surprised about government employees abusing their power to further liberal political ends? Is the surprise due to them finally admitting that “mistakes were made.”

    You have to love the passive voice in “mistakes were made.” I guess these things just happened spontaneously, like magic. Some simple questions come to mind:

    1. Who made the “mistakes”?
    2. Were they acting on their own or did they act under direction?
    3. If they acted on their own, why didn’t their supervisors know what they were doing?
    4. If they were acting under direction, who gave the directions?
    5. Were laws broken and if so, when can we expect indictments?
    6. Were government regulations violated and if so, when can we expect people to be fired?

    Just remember, the IRS will be in charge of administering ObamaCare. That’s something to think about when you need medical care. Need surgery? If you’re a Republican or Tea Party supporter, you can go to Dr. Rick’s Bait Shop and Discount Surgery Center, after a protracted delay, of course.

    1. Just remember, the IRS will be in charge of administering ObamaCare. That’s something to think about when you need medical care. Need surgery? If you’re a Republican or Tea Party supporter, you can go to Dr. Rick’s Bait Shop and Discount Surgery Center, after a protracted delay, of course.

      There’s blocking access, which is certainly why I want to stay away from Obamacare. But then there is also the national database for tracking your health records. If you don’t think that will be abused, then you probably believe Dr. Atkins died of a heart attack.

      1. Well we already see the White House data mining the AP…and the IRS data mining the public.

        (sarc) But no need to worry that the Chicago Thug Government would abuse medical data… (/sarc)

  7. Government abuse is common when it should be rare. There will be no outrage that matters because that tipping point is long passed gone in the rear view mirror.

    Elections will not fix this. We were warned. We let it happen. The founders would be appalled. The lack of reaction is all you need to know.

    1. Actually I suspect the Founders would say:

      “Stupid bastiges – we warned you about this.”

  8. Where is Jim? We know he is down with threatening whistle blowers and throwing people in jail who make youtube videos but where does he stand on using the tools of the state to attack political opponents in this way?

    2. To any liberal who thinks having the IRS behave in this manner is a good idea, just remember the old saying about not giving your own side any power you wouldn’t want used against you by your opponents.

    3. Did you ever watch “The Invaders, a Quinn-Martin Production”?

      You see, there are these aliens disguised as humans. And their spaceships look like a hubcap on a 1958 Chrysler Imperial. The only way to tell someone is an alien is that they have a crooked pinky finger. And only David Vincent (an “architect” — he has to have some career where he is not tied to an office desk so he can go around chasing the aliens) knows about them.

      In every episode (divided into four parts with an Epilogue — this is Quinn-Martin and everything follows a strict forumula), the aliens hatch some stupid plan, David Vincent fights them and thwarts the plan, but when you fight an alien, they just vaporize and leave no evidence, so everyone continues to think David Vincent is making all of this up.

      Oh, and the aliens have these regeneration stations so they can maintain human form. They are not up and about when they are in their regeneration station.

      1. “I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can’t prove anything.”
        ~ Bart Simpson

  9. Not directly related to the IRS but still a move that’s bound to wake up some of Obama’s buttkissers in the Press (via Drudge):

    Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe:

    The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

    The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

    In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

    The liberals in the Press may think having the IRS go after conservatives is a fine and dandy idea. They might not take too kindly to the government becoming interested in their own activities.

  10. And now we know the IRS leaked info to Democrat activists like Propublica. Wonder if OFA wrote the questions asked of the tea party groups. They looked like the detailed demographic information they collect.

  11. We also now now that Max Baucus wrote a letter to the IRS – maybe this is why he’s retiring…he knew the bomb was about to go off in his pants:

    From the Daily Caller:

    Baucus, now investigating IRS, urged IRS to target conservative groups in 2010

    “Democratic Montana Senator Max Baucus is leading an investigation into why the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny despite the fact that Baucus once wrote a letter urging the IRS to do exactly that.
    ……
    Baucus wrote a letter to then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman dated September 28, 2010 urging the IRS to investigative nonprofit conservative groups during the Tea Party-dominated 2010 midterm elections.
    ……
    Though Baucus identified 501 (c) (5) groups — or labor unions — as worthy of investigation, the only organizations cited in his request were conservative, pro-Republican groups.
    ……….
    Baucus specifically named Americans for Job Security, which is described as a “pro-Republican organization,” as a specific target for the IRS to investigate.

    Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Karl Rove, and American Action Network, chaired by former Republican senator Norm Coleman, were also cited in press coverage related to Baucus’ letter as pro-Republican groups helping to elect GOP congressional candidates in 2010.
    “

  12. Those of you worried about a Biden Presidency can rest easy:

    What will happen is that Biden will all of a sudden feel like spending more time with the family and Hillary will be designated VP.

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