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Obama Threatens Political Opponents with Tax Audits
IsraPundit ^ | 5/21/09 | Bill Levinson

Posted on 05/22/2009 9:02:10 AM PDT by Winged Hussar

"Tax Audits Are No Laughing Matter" (Wall Street Journal, May 18 2009) reports that Barack Obama made a "joke" about having people who cross him audited and harassed by the Internal Revenue Service. Before anyone accuses us of lacking a sense of humor, we remind our readers that a teenager who made a joking threat to the President on Facebook was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, and most people know what will happen to them if they joke about hijacking or blowing up an airplane while they are in an airport.

...Here is what Mr. Obama actually said when Arizona State University refused to grant him an honorary degree:

    "I really thought this was much ado about nothing, but I do think we all learned an important lesson. I learned never again to pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA brackets. . . . President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS."
The article adds that the integrity of the Internal Revenue Service is so important that a similar remark by an IRS employee would be cause for immediate dismissal...

A joke about abuse of authority from someone who is in a position to put his words into effect is not a joke, it is a threat that must be taken seriously, just as the TSA must take seriously "jokes" about bombs and hijackings. This is something to be kept in mind in case Mr. Obama's critics and political opponents do find themselves the target of IRS audits.

...Barack Obama did get somebody audited by the IRS. In June 2007, his deliberate and willful misuse of his church's tax exempt resources caused the IRS to investigate the church.

(Excerpt) Read more at israpundit.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: audits; irs; obama
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To: Winged Hussar
Obama Threatens Political Opponents with Tax Audits

Nothing new, here; it's a cheap Dem stunt made famous by Clinton who did it many, many times to his political opposition.

21 posted on 05/22/2009 10:00:10 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: clamper1797

Re: “He was just pretending to be joking ... it WAS a purposeful threat to any and all who would dare cross him.”

Which is why it is cause for dismissal for any IRS employee who does it.


22 posted on 05/22/2009 10:03:30 AM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: Lancey Howard
I’m Green Lantern.

??????????????

23 posted on 05/22/2009 10:05:43 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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To: Winged Hussar

Mr. Obama has been accused of not appreciating the importance of financial capital to the proper functioning of the economy. But ill-chosen remarks like his ASU audit threat suggest that he also doesn’t appreciate the role of moral capital. That, too, is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy.

Barack Obama is morally bankrupt.


24 posted on 05/22/2009 10:06:33 AM PDT by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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To: Winged Hussar

Who says it was a joke?


25 posted on 05/22/2009 10:13:06 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Centurion2000
The Superhero personality test....
It's on YOUR homepage.

: D

26 posted on 05/22/2009 10:15:10 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Winged Hussar

Bump. From 2009 ...


27 posted on 05/15/2013 11:56:19 AM PDT by tanknetter
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