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Posted on 04/18/2002 10:49:16 AM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
LOL! So I have been living on this earth for 20 years without having any life experiences yet? That is the funniest statement I have heard all day. Congradulations Howlin, you have given me the memorable quote and biggest laugh of the day for me.
With all of that life experience under your belt, you should be able to look around and see that it's happening.
Can you think of any legitimate reasons for which the IRS might be uncomfortable about publishing the guidelines which will govern its future decisions to request audits?
Hard to prove a negative, which is that DOJ is not investigating, pursuing, uncovering, looking, searching, seeking justice in this matter of multiple audits that certainly have the appearance of being motivated by political considerations.
I would say there is no reason to believe that they are looking. I would ask,
1. Do you believe there was something suspicious and probably corrupt about these people and groups being audited? No proof, just your gut feeling?
2. If there was something corrupt, or possibly corrupt, shouldn't the DOJ be looking into it?
3. Is there any evidence that they are?
This is a frequent defense offered by the guilty. "But, Your Honor, I was only going as fast as the other traffic. It's unfair that I was ticketed for speeding!"
The only problem is that it's a lousy defense, and it never works.
The IRS can't audit everyone, and a traffic cop can't pull over everyone on the interstate who's speeding.
My company is audited every year. It has been for over 20 years now. I guess the government hates us. Why hasn't Larry come to our rescue?
But because the results aren't what Klaymman wants, we are to now assume that Ashcroft and others are corrupt. Why can't it be that the audit was based on legitimate questions?
When a police officer pulls you over for speeding, it is a lawful stop because you were breaking the law, even if it was only 1 mile an hour over. The police officer will be able to defend himself to a judge if need be, because he clocked the defendent's speed with a radar gun--the law is the law.
It has not been proven that Judicial Watch has broken the law, but yet, the IRS still audits them without any proof of criminal wrong-doing and treats them as if they were guilty before it has been proven so. You should be up in arms about your business being audited all the time. If I were you, I would demand to know what gives the IRS the Probable Cause to give them the authority to audit your intimate financial records.
That's what an audit will determine...... How else will they know if 'eww' followed all procedures without examining the filing in detail..... Kinda like 'eww' filing a FOIA request to get additional details...
What portion of JW's filing is in question and being audited? Has 'eww' let that out yet?
So, if he is only questioning their lack of concern, what's the big deal?
Yep, the tax laws are the only ones which basically require you to provide information which tends to incriminate you. It also requires you to do so without a showing of probable cause or with no warrant being issued for a search.
Each of these objections have been raised numerous times by any number of people. You and Judicial Watch are hardly the first.
But a word of warning--those objections are always rejected by the courts.
I don't think the IRS should ever audit anyone because of their politics. I don't think they should ever NOT audit because of politics, either. I think the Rainbow Coalition and Judicial Watch probably deserve a good auditing, because something doesn't look right based on what we know.
If JW was being audited because of its politics as alleged, that's wrong. But that does not equate to having a right NOT to be audited. I hope you can grasp the difference.
And what exactly do you know?
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