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2015-07-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Obama defends IRS, says tea party targeting didn't happen

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Posted by Fred 2015-07-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Quick! I need a Kleenex, I'm getting a nose bleed.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-07-23 00:17|| 2015-07-23 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Koskinen admitted last month that he took people off the phone lines to spite taxpayers. Fuck both of them for purposefully making my job more difficult.

Posted by Raj 2015-07-23 00:27|| 2015-07-23 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course he's not at fault, f course it's somebody else's fault, what else is new?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-07-23 00:29|| 2015-07-23 00:29|| Front Page Top

#4 "Catch me if you can"

Posted by newc 2015-07-23 01:43|| 2015-07-23 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 His public statement deny it is probably the trigger for the IRS to start the program back up.

Posted by Airandee 2015-07-23 06:32|| 2015-07-23 06:32|| Front Page Top

#6 If congress passed the law, then wouldn't he have had to sign it in?

Posted by chris 2015-07-23 08:00|| 2015-07-23 08:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Nuke the IRS from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-07-23 09:51|| 2015-07-23 09:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Defending the indefensible. An Obama trademark.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-23 09:53|| 2015-07-23 09:53|| Front Page Top

#9 More proof that the IRS was harassing conservatives:

In 2010, after receiving Baucus’s letter, the IRS considered the issue of auditing donors to 501(c)(4) organizations, alleging that a 35 percent gift tax would be due on donations in excess of $13,000. The documents show that the IRS wanted to cross-check donor lists from 501(c)(4) organizations against gift tax filings and commence audits against taxpayers based on this information.

A gift tax on contributions to 501(c)(4)’s was considered by most to be a dead letter since the IRS had never enforced the rule after the Supreme Court ruled that such taxes violated the First Amendment. The documents show that the IRS had not enforced the gift tax since 1982.

But then, in February 2011, at least five donors of an unnamed organization were audited.

An examination like that should, at worst, only result in a letter going out to the donor that they need to file a gift tax return. Instead, they use it to justify at least five full-blown field audits, which went against their own thirty-year policy on this issue. Fire everyone involved in those audits.

Posted by Raj 2015-07-23 11:11|| 2015-07-23 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Ya fire 'em and they just get a better paying job at the (soon-to-be) Obama Foundation.

Posted by Bobby 2015-07-23 13:36|| 2015-07-23 13:36|| Front Page Top

#11 And Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-07-23 15:59|| 2015-07-23 15:59|| Front Page Top

#12 What Darth Vader said.

But please use a small nuke. I live about 60 miles from DC.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-07-23 16:08|| 2015-07-23 16:08|| Front Page Top

#13 I am heartsick. We have a president who lies about everything, an IRS that punishes conservatives, an EPA run amok, and a congress that will not act to oppose them. Why are not articles of impeachment filed against Obama, Koskinen and Mcarthy as a mimimum? Dont tell me that the senate would not convict. Just throw some poop into their end of the pool.

Posted by irishrageboy 2015-07-23 16:59|| 2015-07-23 16:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Great. Now we have the reply. "No, we're not targeting MoveOn and dozens of socialists organizations and individuals than Obama targeted conservative organizations and individuals."

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-23 17:45|| 2015-07-23 17:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Campaign on a flat tax. Abolish the IRS. Certainly the cronies have provided enough ammo.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-07-23 18:06|| 2015-07-23 18:06|| Front Page Top

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