Posted on 06/15/2014 4:07:09 AM PDT by markomalley
As President Obama revealingly said, politics is about rewarding your friend and punishing your enemies .
The invaluable TaxProf blog notes that Obama has proposed a steep increase for the IRS -- a 10.5% budget increase.
The IRS basically has been weaponized by Democrats in the Senate and by Barack Obama to stifle the work of political opponents and restrict the exercise of our First Amendment rights.
Lois Lerner has refused to answer questions in the Peoples House (not that the Democrat-controlled Senate would ever subject Obama to scrutiny).
The latest screw you! to the American people was the claim that emails sent by Lerner to various government agencies, including the White House and Department of Justice, for a two year period prior to 2011 were lost due to her computer crashing. If the average hard-working American taxpayer gave that excuse to the IRS enforcers how understanding would they be?
The IRS Commissioner John Koskinen (appointed to the post by Barack Obama) had previously assured the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that these emails had been archived and would be made available for inspection
The IRS has voluminous records stored away on all Americans going back years. The government spends tens of billions of dollars on record-keeping and computer technology. How stupid does Obama thin Americans are? Very stupid.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Don’t leave me hanging, bro. Your comment ended too abruptly.
Continued...
Build the America you want at your address and keep looking up. I would just add that your address does matter, and partisan politics most decidedly does not.
I also wanted to comment a bit more on the article that you provided. Which I thought was very good. I think that he is essentially correct that this is more of an internal place than external as well. I would hasten to note again that address does matter. I would argue that its a heck of a lot easier to live the good life in an area that would be conducive to it than it is in a place that is hostile.
For example, it is a heck of a lot easier to live a righteous life in a low cost, low regulation, low governance area such as WY or NH or even TN than it is in a place such as NYC. Not just because NYC is a den of depravity, but because the sheer amount of time you have to spend to pay to live there to pay excessive taxes and comply with local edicts.
Let’s say for example you wanted to start a cutting edge communal living arrangement with likeminded religious people. In NYC you would be severely challenged to simply get the zoning approved let alone afford to do so. In NH or WY you would simply look for the appropriate property. Same thing if you wanted to work with kids. Good luck in NYC unless you can comply with the sheaf of edicts which are not only offensive but difficult and expensive to comply with.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.