She labels them “crazies” and “a–holes”. According to a bipartisan report
released earlier this week by the Senate Finance Committee, emails sent
by Lois Lerner during her time at the Internal Revenue Service show
that she was deeply committed to the Democratic Party and had a strong
dislike for conservative, Tea Party ... MORE
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Hope And Change Update: 6.6 Million Americans Had To Pay ObamaCare's Individual Mandate Tax For 2014
The one promise kept. More Americans paid ObamaCare's individual mandate tax for 2014 than previously estimated, according to a new report from the Internal Revenue Service's National Taxpayer Advocate. In January, the Treasury Department projected that up to 6 million households would be subject to the tax because they did not ... MORE
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Rand Paul Wants To "Blow Up the Tax Code and Start Over"
by Nick Gillespie. Stop providing the details of your life to IRS. Libertarianish Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has announced the outlines of an income tax plan that will, in his words, "blow up the tax code and start over." In the Wall Street Journal, Paul writes:I am announcing an over $2 trillion tax cut that would repeal the ... MORE
Obama's Next ‘Executive Actions’ On Global Warming
by Michael Bastasch. IRS to be deployed. President Barack Obama is preparing to unleash a series of “executive
actions” aimed at boosting the green energy industry as part of the
president’s global warming agenda. Obama is launching a “Clean Energy Impact Investment Center” at the
Energy Department to “make information about energy and ... MORE
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Damon Root: 5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch In June
High Court to rule on Obamacare, gay marriage and more. The Supreme Court's 2014-2015 term will soon reach its finale. By the
end of June, when the justices depart for their summer break, the Court
is expected to issue a series of blockbuster decisions, including
rulings on gay marriage, death penalty drugs, and Obamacare. Here are
five ... MORE
Josie Wales: IRS Continues SWAT Raids For Evasion While Hundreds Of Thier Agents Avoid Paying Any Taxes At All
Government's tax cheats are low priority. The Associated Press has reported that over 1,600 IRS employees have willfully committed tax evasion in a 10-year span; most still employed in spite of a 1998 law calling for termination in such cases. Even worse, it has been reported that many of the tax-evading agents were active in enforcing the federal ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The New Inquisition
How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things? Meanwhile, attempts to shut down people whose free speech interferes with other people's political ... MORE
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Ron Paul: IRS, Congress Hold Our Liberty In Contempt
Unaccountable government marches on. This week the Justice Department announced it would not charge former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner with contempt of Congress. Some members of Congress requested that Lerner be charged with contempt after she refused to testify at a congressional hearing ... MORE
DOJ Will Not Prosecute IRS's Lois Lerner For Contempt
by Susan Jones. After all, she took one for the team. President Obama's Justice Department is refusing to prosecute Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress, a decision that "is disappointing and exhibits a disregard for the rule of law," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform ... MORE
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Tyranny: An Essential Feature of Socialism
by Doug Reich. I recently heard a television pundit lament the likely outcome of his own prediction that the liberally biased media, after a temporary fit of outrage over the egregious scandals engulfing the Obama administration, will return to its sycophantic posture just in time for the next election cycle. While I agree with this prediction, the more ... MORE
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Jacob Sullum: Ted Cruz Is Right About Taxes
IRS code's headache-inducing complexity is a scandal. If you have not done your taxes yet, do not count on getting help
from the Internal Revenue Service in answering any last-minute questions
that may arise. The IRS estimates
that only half of the anxious and bewildered taxpayers who call the
agency this year will get through to a ... MORE
The Man Who Would Repeal ObamaCare And Abolish IRS
by Rebecca Nelson. Ted Cruz's official campaign announcement was slow-rolled over the weekend with leaks and, ultimately at midnight Monday, a tweet. But on Monday morning, Cruz made his first official opening pitch at a special edition of one of Liberty University's weekly convocations. "I believe God is not done with America yet," he said. "I believe in ... MORE
IRS May Broaden Rule To Police Political Nonprofits
by Hillary Flynn and Rachael Bade. The IRS may broaden a looming controversial rule to police political nonprofits to include political parties and political action committees, the IRS chief said Wednesday. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the agency may expand a yet-to-be-released rule governing 501(c)(4), “social welfare” groups, to ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
The musings of a genius. When President Obama keeps talking about "violent extremists" in the abstract, you might wonder whether Presbyterians are running amok. The mainstream media seem desperate to try to find something to undermine Republican governor Scott Walker's rise in the polls. The worst they have come up with is that he ... MORE
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George Will: The House Takes On IRS Lawlessness
Preventing Lois Lerner 2.0. Representative Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Service, and hence of Lois Lerner’s legacy. He knows how interesting her career was before she, as head of the IRS exempt-organizations division, directed the suppression ... MORE
IRS Defends Refunds To Illegals Who Never Filed Taxes
by Stephan Dinan. The IRS is defending its decision to let illegal immigrants claim up to three years’ refunds on income even if they never paid income taxes, telling Congress in a new letter last week that agency lawyers have concluded getting a Social Security number triggers the ability to go back and ask for previous refunds. President ... MORE
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Stepen Dinan: White House That Promised Transparency Refuses To Cooperate With The Congressional IRS Probe
How to behave when the truth is not on your side. The White House told Congress
last week it refused to dig into its computers for emails that could
shed light on what kinds of private taxpayer information the IRS shares with President Obama’s top aides, assuring Congress that the IRS will address the issue — eventually. The tax agency has ... MORE
Richard Pollock: IRS Has Active Contract For MILLIONS With The Same Bunch Of Nitwits That Botched Healthcare.gov
More prudence with tax dollars. Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program. CGI is a $10.5 billion Montreal-based company that has forever been etched into ... MORE
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