Hmmm… will work on layout issues later as I have to head up to CSU for graduation festivities.
Congressional hearing turns into IRS smackdown as disgraced former commissioner and Treasury Inspector General face tea-party scandal questions | Mail Online.
- Appointee in charge of screening tax-exempt applications is now in charge of implementing new Obamacare taxes
- Ousted Steven Miller defends himself, insists that targeting of conservatives was ‘foolish mistakes,’ not political gamesmanship
- May 10 leak that launched the scandal was ‘prepared,’ Miller acknowledges
- Former IRS commissioner testified last year that there was ‘absolutely no targeting’ going on
- Democrats on the panel blame 2010 ‘Citizens United’ Supreme Court ruling for creating a flood of tax-exemption applications during an election year
Committee chair Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican, stared down Miller, saying that ‘this systemic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation.’
‘And as much as I expect more people need to go, the reality is this is not a personnel problem,’ Camp maintained. ‘This is a problem of the IRS being too large, too powerful, too intrusive and too abusive of honest, hardworking taxpayers.’
Sander Levin, the panel’s ranking Democrat, said the IRS and its employees ‘have completely failed the American people’ by ‘singling out organizations for review based on their name or political views, rather than their activity.’
‘All of us are angry about this on behalf of the nation,’ the left-leaning Michigan congressman said.
Lois Lerner is the civil servant who heads up the IRS division in charge of evaluating charitable and other nonprofit organizations. Levin called for her head.
‘Ms. Lerner should be relieved of her duties.’ he said.
Bring it on.
