3 More Reasons to Fear the IRS
Nick Gillespie
& Meredith
Bragg
May 21, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FD8vMbH5ulo
So the IRS has admitted to sitting on applications for tax-exempt
status by Tea Party groups for political reasons.
According to the government’s
own investigation, applications containing terms such as Tea Party
and Patriot were singled out for delays and holds even as groups with
liberal-sounding names like "Bus for Progress" and
"Progress Florida"
sailed through the process.
President Obama said “the report's findings are intolerable and
inexcusable” and even fired the acting head of the Internal Revenue
Service.
Regardless of how this particular scandal shakes out, there’s still going
to be at least three good reasons to be scared as hell of the
IRS.
- 1. It’s always been a political weapon.
- John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon all sicced the IRS
on enemies and dissenters. And they were just following in the footsteps
of Franklin Roosevelt,
whose son said his father was “the originator of the concept of
employing the IRS as a weapon of political retribution.”
- 2. Its rulings are super-complicated and capricious.
- The federal tax code is longer than Atlas Shrugged, Ulysses, and the
Old Testament put together. It’s so complicated that even former IRS
commissioners
need help preparing their returns.
- 3. It's Obamacare's enforcement mechanism.
- Starting next year, the IRS will be the cop patrolling the Affordable
Care Act’s mandates, with the agency overseeing
some 47 tax provisions related
to Obamacare. You won’t just be reporting income anymore. You’ll be
explaining when, where, and how you bought health care as well.
http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/05/21/3-reasons-to-fear-the-irs
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