INTRUSION BY THE INFURNAL REVENUE SERVICE AND OTHERS NOTHING NEW!

(USA Today, Associated Press, salon.com, Ezra Klein & Evan Soltas

(Reuters News Service, Frazer Chronicle)

 

“I’ve got no patience for it, I will not tolerate it”, President Barak Obama, for a minute there I thought he might of have been talking about seasoning on his salad, or how his stake was grilled, but oh no it was about the Great IRS scandal, which piggy backed on the Benghazi incident on September 11, 2012. 

 

And that’s not all, the Justice Department, (without notice) seized phone records for reporters and editors at the Associated Press. There was no explanation as to why the fed needed the records except to say that “they needed the records for an unspecified criminal matter.” Man that covers a multitude of questions that may be asked.

 

This attitude comes directly from the president…..not Obama, but George W. Bush and his henchmen during the 2000’s. Freedom of Information, phone records in the trillions, and secret meetings held by many in the Bush Whitehouse had the press in frenzy, but they had nowhere to go to get the relief of true statements from Capitol Hill.

 

Partisanship reigns on a grand scale today not only at the federal level, but way back here at home not only in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but in Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Indiana, Columbus, Ohio, Clare, Michigan and Washington Court House, Virginia. It seems as if politicians all over the country have taken their cue from those politicians in Washington.

 

Whenever authority seems to trample individual rights, there is a huge groundswell of anger as well as frustration. Mostly American citizens simply want to be left alone to pursue their earthly pleasures with regards to a decent living wage, to have week-ends free to tool around their favorite fishing holes, frequent their tavern, and put a little money in the bank.

 

In fact people hire…..through elections, to do the business of government and to manage the taxes that we pay, locally, at the state level as well as at the federal level. We vote for these people every so often as the election cycle dictates…..and we hope that our wishes and their common sense will rule the decisions that they make.

 

But now we have the IRS, Libya, and an impending media phone records scandal that will take up almost all of the time to investigate, analyze, point a boney finger at, and…..nothing will get done, nobody will be brought to justice, and what initially was the aim of the scandals will be achieved…..a political black eye.

 

Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t make any difference, Tea Party, Green Party, the Libertarian, or the other fringe political parties, you can put them all in a hat, and the one you pull out will resemble and sound just like any of the others.

 

Once a power is achieved by an administration, that power, whether right or wrong, necessary for a specific reason or moral’ it becomes like a dog with the preverbal bone, one tough morsel to get away. And by far the worst part of this equation is the fact that whatever power issues an administration gets, it’s passed on to the next administration, no matter the political persuasion.

 

We once again face scandal on several fronts…..as mentioned 3 to be exact, and although not a scandal, a 4^th issue is just around the corner…..no not gay marriage, (it’s being saved for later). The 4^th issue that I’m talking about is the abortion debate that never ever goes away.

I can tell you right now where I stand on abortion, the issue and decision to my way of thinking is profoundly personal and actually is nobody’s business but those directly involved…..sadly the unborn fetus has no voice in the matter.

 

A women’s decision regarding her body is…..just that, her’s, and no bleeding heart person or group, again in my opinion, has any moral or legal ground to make a decision in the process. I do not agree with abortion, I think that the act is barbaric, wrong, and yes, sinful. However those people involved with the act will be burdened with the fact that they took a human life for the rest of theirs!

 

The question of aborting a human entity will go on probably for all time, but my opinion will never change, as will those on both sides of the aisle, probably as it should. If nothing else, the abortion debate will keep the procedure out of the back alleys, and either in hospitals or clinics were health issues can be monitored.

 

IRS TARGETING GROUPS

The Internal Revenue Service, (IRS) has targeted individuals, groups and legal organizations in the United States for years. They are the money cops, they have never seen a tax return that they didn’t want to audit, they just don’t have the time, the personnel or the money…..thank God.

 

I got audited twice during my adult life, and both times a was in a tizzy, and was sweating bullets, not because I filed an illegal tax return, but because I heard the horror stories regarding shut down business, confiscated bank accounts, and people being thrown in jail. Hell, I was in my twenties before I learned that there was no debtors prison…..that’s right, I thought if you didn’t pay your bills, the authorities put your butt in the slam until you made payment arrangements.

 

The two times I got audited, one for business and the other personal, I was found to owe money, $300 in the business one, and something like $50 for my personal one. The amount really didn’t matter, I felt that I was treated like a criminal, and just knew that I was going to have to pay something. I suppose that it didn’t matter with the business one pretty much because I asked the lady auditor when her baby was due…..and she said she “wasn’t pregnant.” She clipped me $300, and the audit took two or three days.

 

The IRS targeted the Tea Party, and as many as 300 other organizations, questioning their tax exempt status, and after all is said and done, the I’s are dotted, and the T’s crossed, if they did target any group, everybody in on the questioning process should get canned, simple, end of the story…..the scandal simply goes away, hopefully to never happen again.

 

However it must be pointed out the George W. Bush and his administration, during the 2004 presidential campaign pulled some of the same shenanigans that obviously the IRS did during the 2012 election. Deplorable, absolutely, should heads roll, you-betcha, and sooner than later.

 

I LOOKED ON-LINE BUT STRANGELY THERE WASN’T MUCH INFO

President Obama and his administration is trying to distance itself from whatever scandal there might be regarding the Internal Revenue Service…..and for a good reason, most people don’t like the IRS and what they do for a living, and how an investigation means nothing but trouble for a citizen. Absolutely nobody looks forward to an audit, or April 15^th, even though we all understand where tax dollars are supposed to go, nobody looks forward to paying their fair share.

 

 

 

Using the IRS to further a political agenda helped end President Richard Millhouse Nixon’s second term in office, and has sullied the repetition of several other chief executives. Historians have pointed to Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Congressman Lyndon Johnson, JFK, and several other noteworthy individuals that used their authority to bully boy government agencies to do their bidding.

 

The Bush administration seemed to take intimidation several levels up, working warrantless wiretaps, refusal to share Information even after the documents were granted FOIA, (Freedom of Information Act), accessibility by Congress.

 

A church were targeted in Pasadena, California, All Saints Episcopal, when a war sermon was delivered from the dais, causing an IRS threat to the Episcopalian church’s tax exempt status. Although the church was found to have violated tax exempt status…..nothing was ever done.

 

Of course the entire episode spiraled downward into a he said, she said kind of a silly back and forth affair. In 2004 the IRS went after the NAACP, auditing their books after its chairman criticized President Bush for not addressing his group since Herbert Hoover.

 

I could go on with these egregious partisanship examples, but you don’t have the time to read them, I’m already fast approaching my word limit that has been evoked by my trusty proof reader. Whether seizing phone records, siccing the IRS on people or organizations, or telling people about child birthing practices, it all needs to stop; it’s not fair, not good for government, and certainly not good for the country.

 

Whether an intrusion into tax exempt status, how your bills are paid, who you talk to, or what web-sites you might access, it doesn’t matter, without the proper documentation and legal action to obtain the rights to eavesdrop, obtain phone records and use government departments in a smear campaign…..it can’t be tolerated, and must be dealt with in a vigorous manner whenever discovered…..Democrat, Republican or whoever.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!