Yesterday the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service broke wide-open. Angry members of a key subcommittee (including half its Democrats!) took turns denouncing the agency and especially its leaders. But few of them got the true point. The IRS scandal should surprise no one. Least of all should it surprise any in Congress. For they, more than anyone else, created the monstrous tax code that needs a monstrous agency to enforce it.
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IRS scandal makes case for tax reform
The IRS scandal grows by the hour. Every hour shows more proof that the Internal Revenue Service behaved badly, and always has. But people aren’t looking at the real scandal. The real scandal is a tax code that needs an IRS to enforce it. Our tax laws let, even make, the IRS ask things about you that are none of anyone’s business but yours. Such laws are not fit for governing a free people.
IRS scandal widens
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has always targeted conservative groups, pro-Israel groups, and groups seeking to improve America. Now its activities are a public scandal. But this should surprise no one.
IRS caught in lies about targeting
The plot surrounding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its targeting of conservative groups, thickened this weekend. An Inspector General’s report confirmed what many observers suspected: the IRS has targeted conservative groups for years. Worse yet, a Commissioner of Internal Revenue perjured himself before Congress last year. And now even a liberal Democrat criticized the IRS for its behavior.
IRS targets conservative groups
Members and leaders of conservative groups (and libertarian groups, too) have long suspected it. Yesterday the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted it. The IRS actually apologized for making things difficult for conservative groups who apply for tax-exempt status. As usual in cases like these, they laid the blame with middle managers in one office. But they offer no reason to doubt that the IRS routinely targets conservative groups or libertarian groups for special grief.
NJGOP: when will they get it?
In my last article I stated the NJGOP is the only state Republican Party in the Union that has not adopted the Republican National Committee Platform. One must ask, why? Well one Republican Assemblymen, in a sullen whimper told me, “Nick you just don’t understand, New Jersey is mostly liberal, we have to compromise.”
Boston Marathon Bombing Updates
The Boston Marathon bombing story, or at least those parts of it that might suggest who did it, has changed radically. As a result, the people now have less confidence in their government, not more. This is not the result any government would want. Furthermore, the government might not want to admit, even to itself, who did the deed.
Cyprus rejects deposit seizure
The parliament of Cyprus today said a big ΟΧΙ! – Ochi! – NO! – to the European Union’s demand to tax bank demand deposits for tribute. But by even thinking of such a step, the EU and the government of Cyprus have done damage neither side can repair. They have broken faith with every man, woman and child who has “money in the bank,” whether that bank be in Cyprus, or elsewhere in Europe, or here in the United States of America.
Bernanke sets up a crash
Don’t let that nice, comfortable grandfatherly look on Mr. Bernanke’s face fool you. He is as evil and destructive as George Soros and all the anti-American projects he funds. For those of us who have religious backgrounds the words “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do” can soften our hearts for those that have done wrong in an attempt to do right.
New Jersey gun buy back failure
If anyone here in New Jersey still has any doubt that the Republican politicians in this state are any less progressive and ignorant than the Democrats they claim to oppose, this latest “gun buy back” program announced yesterday by our Republican Attorney General, should put an end to it.
