Let’s not forget this was a false flag operation. Our Founding Fathers were brave enough to throw tea into the harbor. Just not brave enough to take credit for it. Hence the Native American garb.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 16th Amendment, which gave us the income tax. And it looks like congress has decided to throw the IRS a Tea Party. The Treasury Department Inspector General’s report on the IRS was issued Tuesday. According to the report the IRS asked Tea Party groups questions that were way over the line. Like, “Can you tell me how many letters there are in the alphabet?”
According to the IG report, the IRS also wanted to know who the Tea Party’s donors were. That’s a stupid question. The Koch Brothers.
You know the original Tea Party was a way to avoid taxes. Remember? They dressed up like Native Americans and threw tea into the harbor to protest the tea tax. Doesn’t it make sense that the IRS would be targeting groups who were founded on the core belief that taxes are bad?
In the best of all possible worlds for the Tea Party the IRS would go out of business. The IRS, much like Medicare and Social Security, is something republicans at their core would like to eliminate. People like Mike Huckabee openly talk about abolishing the IRS. So when the IRS targets the Tea Party isn’t it like the police targeting a cop killer?
Here’s what the author John Grisham said about the IRS…
“It’s a game. We [tax lawyers] teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich — and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.”
Isn’t that the conversation we should be having now? According to the Economist one third of all corporate profits worldwide are kept in tax-free offshore havens. So isn’t the real scandal that the IRS is targeting the little guy, like penny ante tea party groups, and not going after the real money owed to them? According to the New York Times, Apple has close to three hundred billion in cash, but it can’t pay it out as dividends because half that money is in tax-free havens in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Doesn’t the IRS have a long history of auditing the little guy because the little guy can’t afford lawyers? Roy Cohen supposedly never paid taxes, he just told the IRS, “Meet me in court.” If you’re middle class you’re more likely to get audited than if you are in the one percent.
From The New York Times…
In recent years, the office’s biggest headache was not the rising tide of political groups seeking tax exemptions or the growing calls from Washington lawmakers, chiefly Democrats, demanding closer scrutiny of big-spending political operations claiming tax-exempt status. The office was consumed with a different problem: a tweak Congress had made to the tax code that threatened more than 400,000 nonprofit groups around the country with an automatic loss of tax exemption, potentially putting some out of business, according to a report by the Taxpayer Advocate Service, which handles complaints about tax cases. Tens of thousands of such groups had reapplied for exemptions, overwhelming the office with queries and paperwork.
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At I.R.S., Unprepared Office Seemed Unclear About the Rules – NYTimes.com.