cause it knows where the bodies are buried...
Posted on 06/02/2013 3:46:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
As this post from yesterday pointed out, it's hardly news to those who read the IRS IG report that Americans were targeted by the IRS -- not just based on membership in the "Tea Party" or "9/12" -- but based on their political sympathies generally.
Last night, the Wall Street Journal reported on another example of this phenomenon.
Apparently, an IRS probe of Freedom Watch began in (surprise!) the unit headed by Lois Lerner (still enjoying a full-pay and full-benefits vacation, courtesy of the taxpayers she harassed). According to the WSJ:
In February 2010, the same month the tea-party targeting started, according to a recent inspector general's report, Freedom's Watch was subjected to an IRS audit that focused largely on its political activities, an uncommon but not unprecedented action, election lawyers say. The probe broadened into other areas, including executive compensation.
About a year later, as many as five donors to Freedom's Watch were subjected to IRS audits of their contributions that sought to impose gift taxes on their donations to the group, according to lawyers and former officials of Freedom's Watch.
Tax experts say that effort was highly unusual. The IRS generally hadn't sought to impose the gift tax on donations to tax-exempt groups such as Freedom's Watch in at least 20 years, perhaps longer, following an unfavorable court ruling and changes in the law by Congress, according to lawyers and IRS documents.
And again, you have to wonder: Why does Lois Lerner still have a job?
Dead on.
I think the Establishment Republican Party fears and hates the Tea Party types with a loathing that knows no bounds. Something they don't feel for the Liberal Democrats.
Their fear and hate is well founded, as we represent a far, far, greater threat to them than do even the most Liberal Democrat
I think I just read that the Ohio AG investigated Ohio voting fraud and concluded that there was a little of it, but not enough to worry about. From the reports I saw that is hard to believe.
People use language that is so imprecise as to “mean anything I want it to mean”.
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I agree 100%. But be warned, there are some who think that statement is “lame”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3025868/posts?page=7#7
YUP!
IIRC, the first calls for “a tea party” were in response to the TARP bailout..... something the GOP could have, but refused to kill.
In the end, it all points to the following people: President Barack Obama, White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod, and former Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. It’s somewhere in this group that the plan to use the IRS to harass political opponents starting February 2010 was proposed and implemented.
cause it knows where the bodies are buried...
WOW!
GOP other than Cruz is not lifting a finger in the House to abolish the IRS .
They have voted to fund Obamacare.
GOP doesn't care if they are the conductors on the gravy train or merely along for the ride.
We do not have a party that speaks for taxpayers, only two factions in DC that have elections to determine who controls the spoils.
There will be no solutions coming from the political class in DC.
The nation is too large and to divided to continue to be governed by an elite political class in DC that extorts 4 trillion dollars a year from those outside the beltway, skims off the top for themselves and their friends, and then deficit spends even more in exchange for votes to keep itself and the Federal apparatchiks living in fat city.
They can only continue this tyranny through the use and threat of violent force and intimidation.
The free states must refuse to participate in the monstrosity on the Potomac by refusing to send or vote for representatives to Congress, by not sending income taxes to the IRS, and by forming alliances with other states of like mind.
The Governors have National Guard at their disposal and must be ready to use them for defense if the Washingtonians invade their territory.
The greatest threat to the freedom and liberty of the US Citizen is the Federal Apparatus in DC, not a bunch of ragheads in the middle east.
Local Law Enforcement.
United States Association of America-USAA
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet pledged millions to a charity group Gates started. Do they have to pay a gift tax?
No they get a tax deduction. Furthermore, a lot of family "charities" (not Gates and Buffet) are actually inheritance tax evasion manuveurs.
You set up a charity, make contributions and get a tax deduction, and you kids are on the board of directors. The kids get expense accounts and small salaries which eat up about 80-90 percent of the contributions and maybe 10-15 percent are actually donated to do something charitable. The kids do have to pay taxes on their salaries but not the expense accounts.
Time to investigate every department Lois ever worked for. FEC where she targeted Christians and conservative politicians is a good start.
Obama’s 2008 campaign donations had numerous red flags. It was said Soros and Obama had prepaid money cards so they could sneak in any amounts they wanted to his campaign.
Now World Bank whistleblower says Obama won with foreign donations.
FEC needs to be scrutinized big time.
If the new George Washington could just 'invade' the strategic states of MI and WI, and connect to the Alberta and ND gas/oil fields by occupying MT, the rest of the commie states would capitulate very quickly.
• Everyone @ the Tax Exempt Division Resigns;
• Appoint Tea Party Representatives to the Tax Exempt Division of the IRS to serve for 2yrs;
• Provide full immunity & no oversight for the term of their service.
That should make us even-steven...
I’m also paying them taxes and with penalties and interesting it’s a big sum. It makes one wonder how many Dems and how many Repubs have been billed. My guess would be the Repubs would win that comparison hands down.
Wow, nice rant. Yet the Pub’s never make any truly effective resistance to bigger and bigger govt., and haven’t for decades. Have they done anything about 10’s of millions of illegals siphoning off tax revenue paid by the citizens?
The truth sucks. They are a bunch of noise so you believe they are an opposition party. One wing of the single political party in the US, the party of Ivy League Incumbent Lawyers. I don’t care which side is killed off first, vote 3rd party.
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