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The Fake IRS Scandal

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The agency has until the end of the month (i.e., this week) to come clean:

All thinking Americans are fed up with the arrogance. Entitlement and disdain [sic] for the law demonstrated repeatedly by the IRS officials, especially Commissioner Koskinen, who is now proved by his own Inspector General to have lied to Congress when he claimed the IRS had made every effort to find the missing emails and backup tapes. …

Judge Sullivan has also set a hearing for July 1 at 1:30 in his courtroom. If the IRS has not sufficiently answered his questions in writing, there’s no doubt they will be called upon to do so in person. This hearing may be worthy of concession sales. It’s past time for “orange to be the new black” for some people in the IRS.

I’m not sure any change in outfit will really improve her looks.

6 thoughts on “The Fake IRS Scandal”

  1. Commissioner Koskinen, who is now proved by his own Inspector General to have lied to Congress when he claimed the IRS had made every effort to find the missing emails and backup tapes

    That is not an accurate description of Koskinen’s testimony. He claimed that the server backup tapes were routinely recycled every six months, and nothing has come out to contradict that. He didn’t mention that the email server was replaced in 2011, and that the backup tapes for the decommissioned server hadn’t been recycled, but there’s no evidence that he knew those things. I haven’t taken the time to search his testimony, but I don’t recall him claiming that the IRS had “made every effort to find the missing emails and backup tapes”. Such a blanket claim would always be false, because you can always imagine additional efforts that could be taken.

    2. Maybe you could file your opinions as an amicus curiae to the court, as you aren’t getting much traction here

    1. The grammar. But it’s probably in the wrong place. I think that should be a comma after “arrogance,” not a period. The next sentence doesn’t have a predicate.

      1. I, too, was wondering why the “[sic]”, and now it makes sense in terms of an accidental period where a comma was meant to go.

        Of course, if people would just use Oxford commas, the typo likely would have stuck out a bit more to the editor/writer before publication. 😉

        That said, whoever/whatever (MS Word Autocorrect) automatically capitalized that first word after the period is partially to blame, too.

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