This is a Kardashian Administration. There is no semblance of competence, integrity, or credibility.
Next time the IRS wants tax records, tell them your computer magically took a dump.
^ But that’s the thing, that type of defense would land a private citizen in prison.
[quote]Brett620 wrote:
^ But that’s the thing, that type of defense would land a private citizen in prison. [/quote]
Not unless you were going to prison in the first place.
Saying to the IRS “look I lost everything” will end in you paying in much more than you would have to if you didn’t, however, the vast majority of your documentation can be recovered. But, unless you were going up from fraud it wouldn’t put you in any more danger for getting arrested than had you had all your info.
Your W2, your 1099’s, and even most of your invoices from 3rd parties can be recreated.
22 million emails were lost by the Bush administration. Good news… those emails were eventually recovered, and are being analyzed now, before release. So maybe these lost IRS emails will be recovered too. (Unlike Bush, the Obama administration is not using an illegal private email account for official inter-office communications. So that’s an improvement.)
As noted on Page 1, the 10% connection between IRS audits and Tea Party donations might be coincidental. Statistically, the connection proves nothing.
Also, I think IRS scrutiny of Tea Party groups is warranted. Many of these groups apply for tax-exempt status on the basis of being a “social advocacy” group, when they are clearly involved in political activities (which are not tax exempt). I don’t condone that, any more than I would condone somebody setting up a phony church in order to avoid paying taxes. If you don’t cheat on your taxes, you won’t have a problem. And by the way, liberal political groups who apply for tax exempt status are also scrutinized. The idea that only right wingers are targeted is false.
lmao @ “but Bush” post…
So pathetic…
The point is that losing emails isn’t the big scandal that you desperately wish it was.
Maybe that’s why the media doesn’t seem to think this story is so shocking - we’ve already heard it before, and worse.
[quote]K2000 wrote:
The point is that losing emails isn’t the big scandal that you desperately wish it was.
Maybe that’s why the media doesn’t seem to think this story is so shocking - we’ve already heard it before, and worse.[/quote]
Well seeing as the scandal isn’t the emails, and I don’t have to wish anything, the IRS situation is quite a big scandal to anyone intellectually consistent, I’d say your “but Bush” post is still just as pathetic as it was when you posted it.
But I guess, you know, maybe people hoped it would change.
Yeah, everybody is totally freaking out about this IRS stuff, just like Benghazi. You’re right again.
Darn.
[quote]K2000 wrote:
Yeah, everybody is totally freaking out about this IRS stuff, just like Benghazi. You’re right again.
Darn.[/quote]
You don’t seem to care because your team wasn’t the one targeted.
When it is your team that is getting politically persecuted you’ll care, but by then (as it is now) it will be too late because you, and people like you aren’t intellectually consistent.
So like I said, anyone with an ounce of intellectual consistency is pretty upset that the government can and has used the IRS to suppressed the rights of citizens simply for having political beliefs different from them, while giving the likes of OFA a green light.
The bed you’re making and all that.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
When it is your team that is getting politically persecuted you’ll care, but by then (as it is now) it will be too late because you, and people like you aren’t intellectually consistent. [/quote]
“First they came for the Tea Party, but I said nothing, because I wasn’t a batshit crazy idiot”.
I already pointed out that the right wing was not targeted exclusively - this came up in Congressional hearings - and that the IRS scrutiny of Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status was appropriate. But keep ignoring the things that don’t fit into your convenient narrative… because that way, you can be “intellectually consistent” LOL
[quote]K2000 wrote:
I already pointed out that the right wing was not targeted exclusively - this came up in Congressional hearings - and that the IRS scrutiny of Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status was appropriate. But keep ignoring the things that don’t fit into your convenient narrative… because that way, you can be “intellectually consistent” LOL
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If I’m ignoring things, please point out where left leaning groups were given as much scrutiny. Specifics please.
Do your own research… it’s part of the Congressional record. Try reading “outside your bubble” 
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
If I’m ignoring things, please point out where left leaning groups were given as much scrutiny. Specifics please. [/quote]
So it should be an equal 50/50 situation, in order to be just? So if 10 Tea Party groups are scrutinized, then 10 liberal groups must be scrutinized to appear balanced? Because that would be stupid.
From Saturday’s LA Times, a reader writes:
"The second article of impeachment against Richard Nixon included his use of the IRS to go after his political enemies. A White House tape had 18 minutes missing, and the media uproar appropriately deafened me in both ears.
“Now the IRS says it has lost two years of relevant emails pertaining to the scandal over the alleged targeting of conservative groups, and the media are positively somnambulant. Go figure.”
[quote]K2000 wrote:
Do your own research… it’s part of the Congressional record. Try reading “outside your bubble” ;)[/quote]
Translation: I can’t substantiate my claim, therefore I concede.
I wonder if the average American even realized what David Ferriero said.
More missing emails:
“The new round of computer crash victims includes David Fish, who routinely corresponded with Lois Lerner, as well as Lerner subordinate Andy Megosh, Lerner?s technical adviser Justin Lowe, and Cincinnati-based agent Kimberly Kitchens”
These are the people whose computers “crashed:”