… said Cleta Martin. IRS Scandal About to Blow Wide Open? | Power Line.
None of this comes as a surprise to conservatives. I had lunch today with two conservative donors who have a great deal more money than I do, both of whom were targeted years ago by the Democrat-controlled IRS. One of my friends had wrapped up an audit, and then, the following year, was identified as a major Republican donor in the New York Times. A week after the Times article appeared, he got a call from the IRS, saying they were going to audit him. He expressed surprise, telling the IRS agent that he had a letter from the agency to the effect that he should be fine for the next three years. Which was greeted with silence; he didn’t hear from the IRS again. My other friend, also a significant Republican donor, was the subject of an audit that seemed patently unreasonable. In the course of it, the IRS agent explained apologetically that he was just following orders from Washington.
This is life in the Age of Obama. If you are a conservative, you are an enemy of the state. Still, you have to wonder about a country where the government harasses those who describe themselves as “patriots.” Can such a country possibly have a future? It seems doubtful.
Very simply, this is a threat to our very democracy. There is no more powerful organization than the IRS. For them to even appear political is damning. For them to actually be used as a political tool, that’s a threat to democracy, pure and simple.
Heads need to roll at all levels of the IRS. A totally new culture should be implemented immediately. Better yet, lets get a national sales tax and shrink the IRS to a fraction of its current size. Ahhh, but there’s always Obamacare, of which the IRS plays a very critical role. That…. is a topic for another day.
