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The IRS: the true masters of contemporary predation
Coach is Right ^ | 5/18/14 | George Spelvin

Posted on 05/18/2014 9:28:55 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax

Hot, tired, and wanting a relaxing lunch at my favorite Italian scratch restaurant, I ducked the South Florida raindrops and went inside. There was my favorite waiter so I felt this was going to be a great respite. Wow. Was I wrong! The young Italian American and I are friends; we go way back, to the first few months I moved down here and bought my home from this hard working, sincere young man. So we could and did talk freely in between his serving other customers in the busy place.

He told me his tale of woe at the hands of the IRS that made me so mad that I still recoil many hours later. “They took over my bank account,” he said. His car payment was going to bounce if his sister hadn’t helped him out. He was about to lose his only means of transportation. He had a large student loan debt plus other debts that were giving him a lot of grief. But the worst blow of all was the $100,000 fine that the IRS told him he owed them or else. The “or else” boiled down to this predatory agency–the very agency that now controls our lives...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: irs; taxes; taxpenalties

1 posted on 05/18/2014 9:28:55 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Oldpuppymax

The IRS can and will seize your accounts.


2 posted on 05/18/2014 9:51:18 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (waiting for my Magic 8 ball to give me an answer)
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To: Oldpuppymax

And yet plenty of FReepers support this so-called tax on gain.


3 posted on 05/18/2014 9:55:44 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Oldpuppymax
The IRS [Obugabe and his flying monkeys]: the true masters of contemporary predation.

I just had to fix that!

The IRS and a dozen other agencies and departments are only the symptom of the criminal malady.

let historical credit fall where it is due.
It wasn't easy to effect the total breakdown of the oldest Constitutional Republic on earth.

4 posted on 05/18/2014 10:00:26 AM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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To: andyk

The IRS has our bank accounts... pretty much like giving your password to all you do in American life.

I think we should build private trust accounts under some legal umbrella like corporations do, “redistributing” the stuff ourselves and keep the government from having access. Enough of this crap.


5 posted on 05/18/2014 10:48:01 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Wonder how a guy like this ended up owing so much? Did he not report tips and the IRS came up with an amount they figured he owed?

Also, from what I know you get fair warning from the IRS before they seize your stuff.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the IRS should be outlawed...but I think this kid had reason to anticipate what the IRS did to him.


6 posted on 05/18/2014 10:56:07 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

The IRS is the American Gestapo. It is finally starting to dawn on people what the marxist evil is all about. The greatest blow we could strike for freedom is to eliminate the income tax and with it the elimination of the IRS and all it’s related evil.


7 posted on 05/18/2014 11:12:16 AM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1
"It is finally starting to dawn on people"

Wishful thinking!

8 posted on 05/18/2014 11:31:52 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: lavaroise

Would it help if you have multiple bank accounts, and don’t keep too much money in any given account?

Just a thought, that even if the IRS freezes an account they know about, what about the ones they aren’t aware of?

And what if you own gold, or other valuables, not in the form of cash?


9 posted on 05/18/2014 11:37:30 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: I am Richard Brandon

I know.


10 posted on 05/18/2014 11:51:37 AM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Definitely. Cash is really a residual difference after a barter deal reevalued by insitutions like banks and now the government slaves.

It only has value because the government demands it as legal tender.


11 posted on 05/18/2014 5:17:56 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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