“the House voted on a nonbinding resolution “
Anyone wanna explain WHY it isn’t binding? Anyone? Why they did not vote to MAKE it binding?
The US needs a simple flat tax with very limited deductions. The IRS needs to be abolished and every last one of its employees sent into the unemployment line. Let them live off their retirement contributions which can be refunded to them.
If Obama would just stop waiting for his behind to lead, and move forward with Nationalizing all of the US Oil and Gas pipelines, then Nationalized Oil and Gas pipelines revenues would buy:
* a lot of Cattle Rustlers for Feudal Lord Reid’s BLM Raiders;
* pay liberal shakedown fines to Algore for the EPA illegal CO2 footprint of Obama’s Corporate Jet, Air Force One;
* and fully fund all annual performance bonuses for those public servants who daily break Federal Laws at the IRS.
Odds of an individual return being audited by the IRS is 1/150. Wonder if odds of 1/10 for a certain group is statistically significant?
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It would be nice to look into the details of these audits, when compared to detailed averages over the entire population of taxpayers audited.
What was the average amount of underpaid taxes recovered from the TEA Party targets, compared to the average amount of underpaid taxes recovered for all taxpayers audited in a single year?
What was the average amount of all penalties assessed against the TEA Party targets, compared to the average of penalties assessed for all taxpayers audited in a single year?
What was the average income level of the TEA Party targets, compared to the average income level of all taxpayers who are audited in a single year?
What percentage of the TEA Party targets were claiming EITC money, compared to the percentage of EITC recipients audited in a single year?
They went from targeting conservative organization in their application for tax exempt status...to targeting INDIVIDUALS FOR AUDIT.
In any sane world this would cause an armed revolution, but even the GOP in Congress cannot avoid the implications of this.
Impeachment now.
IRS audit rate is 10 times the normal rate for tea party donors. that's barack Obama ordering the IRS to eliminate his political enemies, an impeachable offense. the buck Stops with Obama . Barack Obama is the head of the IRS
if a Republican president had done this it would be on 24/7 on the network TV instead of “the racist comment some baskteball guy said” , or the luge at the winter olympics, or the missing plane, or trayvon martin,
in the 1970’s the watergate hearings were on all 3 networks 24/7 .and Nixon's IRS never did oppress anyone. but the media insinuated that he might have wanted to
If this is true then the Republicans better grow some balls because now I am afraid to even donate to the RNC.
Would you please put this in Breaking News? This is a big one.
GOPe leaders probably asked for them to be audited. I wouldn’t put it past them.
I continue to say this (the IRS scandal) is a much bigger deal than Benghazi. Very crassly: This affects half of all Americans, on American soil, was deliberate, arguably affected an election, and was by its nature a conspiracy, a racket, a complex violation of IRS regs. Benghazi, no doubt, might have affected the election; Benghazi affected four people, and those four could have been killed just out of massive incompetence from a security lapse. I *do* understand the coverup of Benghazi is the big issue, but from the argumentative standpoint, that attack could happened to “anyone” and the coverup didn’t kill anyone, it was just a massive lie, like so many others.
I’m not trying to sugarcoat anything. They are both egregious, but the IRS thing is an internal hijacking of the gov’t and stands as bigger deal, as least to me it does.
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Keep in mind the Republican Establishment only exists to manipulate the tax code for the favor of their masters in the corporate world.
Nothing is going to change in the IRS, it is in the optimal interest of all parties EXCEPT the American wage earning taxpayers, to make sure that any and every expression of displeasure with the IRS be summarily crushed through lawfare and bureaucratic tsunamis.
Bump
This should be a hanging offense.
For real.
END THE IRS!
Well, with a possible Republican win of Congress, and possibly retaking he White House in 2016, it’s time for major legislation overhauling our tax system, like a flat tax, or national sales tax, whatever it takes to hand thousands of IRS agents their pink slips. That’s one way to start cleaning out the leftist criminal organization. Make the IRS too small to carry out extortion and persecution of political enemies.
I question the numbers. Ten percent of all Tea Party donors? Most Tea Party donations were fairly small. That would be a LOT of people the IRS would be going after. Though perhaps they only went after the high-amount donors. I just want to make sure we aren’t made to look silly by using inaccurate info or numbers.
- Let Obama go on with his snorting and heavy boozing
- His Dead Pool rankings will improve…..