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IRS Lies About Tax Scandal Continue To Mount
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 05/16/2013 | IBD Staff

Posted on 05/17/2013 4:25:01 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Like everything else the IRS has said about the tax scandal, its explanation for why it ended up targeting conservative groups turns out to be completely false. Which raises the question: Why are IRS officials trying so desperately to hide what really went on?

Ever since the tax scandal broke, top IRS officials have insisted that the reason it started singling out conservative groups for extra review was because the agency was getting a flood of tax-exempt applications.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conservatives; irs; obama; scandal

1 posted on 05/17/2013 4:25:01 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer

This was all about disenfranchising Conservative voters to ensure that Obama was re-elected.

Can you say “Illegitimate President?”


2 posted on 05/17/2013 4:36:39 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

BUMP


3 posted on 05/17/2013 4:40:22 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: IBD editorial writer
"Why are IRS officials trying so desperately to hide what really went on?"

Possibly because the chain of orders leads "right to the top".

4 posted on 05/17/2013 4:48:33 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: IBD editorial writer

These are the people who will decide who gets medical care under obamacare. Won’t that be great for TPs and all the others.


5 posted on 05/17/2013 4:54:55 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: IBD editorial writer
The fawning media must NOW ask the questions they should have asked THEN---when Ohaha first surfaced as a candidate.

Who is this guy in the White House?

Remember that O's PR person----Anita "Mao" Dunn---said AFTER the 2008 election that the O Team "allowed" the media to know only what THEY wanted them to know. No probing questions and interviews were allowed.

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THIS WE KNOW The Obamanations are a tight-knit clique of socialists/communists/unions/progs/liberals----they see themselves as superior---bound together by "enlightened" values — reason, tolerance, diversity and equality. The rest of us are unworthy and are to be suppressed and marginalized.......using any means possible.

The Ohaha savages duped the citizenry, led us over a multi-trillion dollar deficit cliff, into massive corrupt bailouts, and atrocities like amnesty and Obamacare. Their motto: "Everything For Us--Nothing For You."

In the wake of Benghazi, the IRS abuses, etc, we are reminded that the Obamanoids are ruthless predators w/ no empathy for others and no remorse; anti-social psychopaths who recognize no moral boundaries--aggressively going after what they want, irregardless of the consequences to others.

6 posted on 05/17/2013 4:55:44 AM PDT by Liz (To learn who rules over you, determine who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire)
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To: All

It is time to rid the American public the curse of the IRS. The IRS has a file on everybody that pays income tax and more. Those files contain information that beyond what the government needs to know. The IRS and Treasury knows all about your personal affairs. The have all your banking and financial statics. They know your doctors, the medications you take, and all your health problems. They know all about your fire arms. All government agencies share files. Don’
t be fooled. You have only a precious few secrets from the Federal Government. In short, we are all property of the US Treasury.


7 posted on 05/17/2013 4:59:12 AM PDT by oyez
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To: IBD editorial writer

This article refutes the claim there were so many conservative applications:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/applications_for_tax_exempt_status_actually_declined_at_time_of_irs_targeting.html


8 posted on 05/17/2013 5:00:07 AM PDT by Walmartian (I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
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To: winkadink

Right. If you don’t measure up, you don’t get the care you need. Its a cold way of dealing with dissention and now days the government has all the information to do it.

Fear not.

We have free birth control.


9 posted on 05/17/2013 5:06:35 AM PDT by oyez
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To: Arm_Bears
Can you say "abusing the power of the IRS to commit election fraud?"

This is the type of thing that will cause the Democrats to run for cover because we may be talking violations of Federal law on handling taxpayer information and racketeering on a MASSIVE scale.

10 posted on 05/17/2013 5:07:57 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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Why are IRS officials trying so desperately to hide what really went on?

Preserve their highly effective criminal apparatus. Hillary's campaign is fast approaching.

11 posted on 05/17/2013 5:15:53 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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12 posted on 05/17/2013 5:19:34 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet)
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To: Arm_Bears

The left just can’t help themselves and seem incapable of attempting to intimidate the right.

Just this morning I see that Unite Blue is now following me on twitter and I’m sure its not because they like what I have to say.


13 posted on 05/17/2013 5:23:54 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Whatever belief that the IRS is an independent agency fairly and uniformly applying its myriad of rules has been shot in the @$$ for the indefinite future.


14 posted on 05/17/2013 5:24:17 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Arm_Bears

Disenfranchising hell, this is about targeting conservatives for harassment, abuse, and whatever else they had planned.

Its no different than nazis seizing banking records for the purpose of everything from taking money and assets, to finding those they wanted to round up for extermination.


15 posted on 05/17/2013 5:33:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harrassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.

More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director of the tax agency’s Obamacare program office

http://washingtonexaminer.com/irs-tax-exemptionobamacare-exec-got-100390-in-bonuses/article/2529899


16 posted on 05/17/2013 5:35:11 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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why it ended up targeting conservative groups

It's so obvious. Pampared Federal employees are the natural enemies of Americans who want to reduce the numbers of Pampared Fat Federal employees.

17 posted on 05/17/2013 5:47:21 AM PDT by DManA
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