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| IRS Agent: Tax Agency still targeting Tea Party |
| 2013-08-09 |
| [Washington Examiner] In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting Tea Party groups, three months after the IRS scandal erupted. "Remarkable"....to some possibly. In closed door testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee, the unidentified IRS agent said requests for special tax status from Tea Party groups is being forced into a special "secondary screening" because the agency has yet to come up with new guidance on how to judge the tax status of the groups. In a transcript from the committee provided to Secrets, a Ways & Means investigator asked: "If you saw -- I am asking this currently, if today if a Tea Party case, a group -- a case from a Tea Party group came in to your desk, you reviewed the file and there was no evidence of political activity, would you potentially approve that case? Is that something you would do?" The agent said, "At this point I would send it to secondary screening, political advocacy." The committee staffer then said, "So you would treat a Tea Party group as a political advocacy case even if there was no evidence of political activity on the application. Is that right?" The agent admitted, "Based on my current manager's direction, uh-huh." The Nurenberg defense. Very impressive Might want to ask the ghost of Anton Dostler how that turned out... |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 This is just a trial - just wait until they start... Of course you know the IRS will be running ObamaCare. It is a "constitutional" tax after all. So it'll be the same people with the same database and the same lack of scruples. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-08-09 18:09 |
| #10 This is just a trial - just wait until they start... Just wait until the government apparatchiks start being found headless. If they are found. |
| Posted by: Joth Untervehr3925 2013-08-09 14:15 |
| #9 This is just a trial - just wait until they start delaying approval of life-saving medical treatment based on one's 'associations' (via that huge NSA database...). "Oh... you visited Rantburg 20 times last week.... well we'll have to route this to 'secondary screening'" (which has a 18-month backlog....) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-08-09 12:19 |
| #8 Well, there's another election coming up in 2014. What did you expect? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-08-09 11:37 |
| #7 Every organization takes on the personality of its leader. At the top our leader is corrupt, unapologetic, a racist, egocentric, and disregards the constitution while holding democracy in contempt. The DOJ, IRS, State Dept., democratic party, and other agencies are a mirror the Obama soul. By the end of his presidency our economic system, legal system, tax code, health care codes, foreign policy, diplomatic processes, and political processes will be so corrupted and so fragile they might not survive. He will have proven himself to be the largest risk to national security since Stalin. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2013-08-09 11:32 |
| #6 Tyrant, one who is unrestrained by law and constitution. |
| Posted by: Uneaper Spairong8790 2013-08-09 11:23 |
| #5 IRS Joke I heard years ago... Big, burly, bigmouthed man in the bar is going around challenging people to things. Darts, Pool, whatever. Finally he takes an empty glass (and not a shot glass) and a single lemon. He squeezes the lemon over the glass - his muscles tighen, cords stick out of his neck and his face turns red but he finally manages to fill the glass with lemon juice from the single lemon. People are astonished, "how he'd do that?" and the braggart went around challenging people to do the same - no-body takes him up on it. Finally he gets to this little wizzened old man at the end "I bet you can't fill a glass with lemon juice like that!" he challenges. "Well I'll try...". The burley man get another empty glass and lemon and slams it on the bar, "Lets see it. $50 says you can't do it!". "Ok" says the wizzened old man who todders over to the bar. He takes the glass and the remains of the same lemon the big guy squeezed, positions it over the glass and gives it a slight little flex... and fills up glass easily. Everyone is flabbergasted! "How the hell you do that?" the big guy demanded. "Well, you see, Before I retired I worked for the IRS....". |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-08-09 10:08 |
| #4 A father walks into a restaurant with his young son He gives the young boy 3 nickels to play with to keep him occupied. Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickels and starts slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up 2 of the nickels, but keeps choking. Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help. A well-dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman in a blue business suit is sitting at the coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant. Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy's testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand. Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word. As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor? " "No," the woman replied, "I'm with the Internal Revenue Service." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-08-09 09:35 |
| #3 That why you need blood on the floor, pour encourager les autres. Otherwise behavior never changes. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-08-09 08:17 |
| #2 This will only change when you fire people by the dozens & cut their budget by 20+ percent; I'm not holding my breath on either one happening. |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-08-09 00:49 |
| #1 Targeting has been proven effective in the past. They're getting away with it. So why should they discontinue the practice? |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-08-09 00:19 |