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An
official with the Internal Revenue Service has admitted that legal
opponents of former President Bill Clinton were singled out for tax
audits, according to court documents made public this week.
"What do you expect when you sue the president?" senior IRS official Paul
Breslan
told Judicial Watch, the Washington-based legal watchdog group that had
filed 50-plus legal actions against the Clinton administration and
subsequently found itself in the IRS's cross hairs. |
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What are local Tea Partiers to think with requests
like “Please identify your volunteers” or “are there board members or
officers who have run or will run for office (including relatives)”?
What possible reason would the IRS have for Tea Parties to “name your
donors” when said donations are non-deductible? These are just a few of
the questions asked by the IRS in these letters, and one cannot help
but suspect an intrinsic threat encompassing all these demands.
The other question is the timing of these IRS letters requesting reams
of copies and hundreds of hours of work and potentially thousands of
dollars in accounting/legal fees (all due in two weeks). Some of these
Tea Party groups have not received anything concerning their nonprofit
status since 2010 prior to these letters.
These documents are further undermined by a letter sent to the IRS
Commissioner Shulman. Signed by six Senators, it requests that the
commissioner investigate 501(c)(4) groups to determine whether they are
engaging in substantial campaign activity, including opposition to any
candidate. Who signed this letter? Senators Schumer, Franken, Udall,
Shaheen, Whitehouse, Merkley and Bennet — all Democrats.
Using
the Clinton example, we
have good reason to belive that there will never be an official
finding agaist Obama, or any Democrat president, for using the IRS to
smother critics. The question then becomes, "Do you think
President
Obama would use the IRS as a weapon?" There you have it. A
filter for separating people with brains from the chaff. Best we
can do, I'm afraid.
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ALTHOUGH
NIXON WAS notorious for treating the I.R.S. as though it were his
private domain, the records show that Franklin Delano Roosevelt may
have set the stage for the use of the tax agency for political purposes
by most subsequent Presidents. [MISUSE
OF THE I.R.S.: THE ABUSE OF POWER- NYT 1989] |
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Nixon was "notorious" only because he was singled out for doing what
his predecessors did without rebuke. You may want to read the cited
article in the event you don't understand the threat the IRS poses to
us all. Even congress is afraid to curb the the agency's power.
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