Notes from the Resistance
The French senate this week passed a law that will force everyone to work for one extra day a year, with everything they earn going directly to the government. [More]
People get all outraged when they see it put like that.
What the hell do they think “Tax Freedom Day” admits about our country?
Or the words “Tea Party” signify…?
[Via Steve T]
Biden’s DOJ Seeks Revenge On IRS Whistleblowers For Exposing Hunter’s Crimes [More]
When has the DOJ ever been known to retaliate?
[Via Michael G]
Seriously? Marx for Our Lives took in millions as a tax-exempt non-profit and transferred them to their lobbying arm? And their lawyers and tax accontants are OK with that?
And their major donors didn’t collude with them on it?
Can “our side” do that, too?
IRS Special Agent Indicted In Shooting Death Of Fellow Agent [More]
Will he still be able to deduct mileage for his trip to the range?
[Via Matt L]
According to Alex Mena, an IRS official with the criminal investigations unit in New York, who met with O’Keefe Media Group’s undercover journalist, the IRS uses artificial intelligence technology to spy on American citizens and company bank accounts without a warrant or evidence to uncover what they consider fraud. According to the source, the IRS is “going after the small people” and “destroying people’s lives.” All of the agents are “like robots,” said Mena. [More]
Or termites…
Hey, gotta pay for those illegals, “forgive” college loans, fund foreign wars and fight Texas and gun owners in court…
[Via Michael G]
Ex-IRS Consultant Took Job With Intention Of Stealing Trump’s Tax Returns: DOJ [More]
How is it that a consultant can get carte blanche instead of controlled access to limited files pertaining to a contract with authorization safeguards?
And when are they going to prosecute the co-conspirator receivers of stolen information, like The New York Times and ProPublica?
[Via bondmen]
Internal Revenue Service Employee Brandished Toy Gun at Service Center in Utah… Bryner also indicated he had a medical marijuana card and uses marijuana … Bryner made two attempts to purchase rifles from a federally licensed firearms dealer in Ogden, Utah. On both purchase forms, Bryner certified he is neither an unlawful user of nor addicted to marijuana. [More]
This was in March– I haven’t been able to determine what happened to the case, if anything yet.
I’m curious to see if he’s been offered the same “consent to permanent entry” deal as Hunter Biden.
[Via President Non_Fudd]
IRS agent shot and killed by another agent in training accident in Phoenix, per ABC15 sources [More]
Popular reaction is less than sympathetic.
[Via @jumpinjonnydee]
During my visit to Highwood Creek Outfitters, I learned that the IRS confiscated all the 4473 forms from the store. This means that the sensitive personal information of any customer ever to purchase a firearm at Highwood Creek Outfitters is now in the hands of the IRS. These background check forms include no financial information, and there is no discernable reason why the IRS would need these forms. The IRS committed an egregious breach of privacy for Montana’s gun owners, and I am outraged that the agents involved showed no regard for federal law. Although there are still some murky details regarding the events at Highwood Creek Outfitters. There is no circumstance in which 4473’s would be necessary in an investigation spearheaded by the IRS. [More]
I guess seizing records outright beats taking pictures with their phones. Funny, how this most significant piece of information got buried until the end of the “news” account…
[Via Jess]
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is introducing a bill on Tuesday that would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from arming its agents with taxpayer money. [More]
She’s pandering to rah-rah Republican gun owners over something she knows damn well doesn’t have a chance in hell of passing and counting on them being oblivious to her screwing them in Biden’s ‘Bipartisan’ Betrayal.
[Via Jess]
The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up in the case, The Post has learned. [More]
I remember that scene…
“Where’s the media outrage,” you ask…?
[Via Michael G]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Despite showing nine Biden family members allegedly receiving funds from corrupt figures in Romania, China and other countries, The New Republic quickly ran a story headlined “Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden.” [More]
And that’s why I call ’em the DSM.
[Via bondmen]
IRS Hiring Gun-Carrying Agents in all 50 States [More]
The “swarms of officers sent hither to harass our people and eat out their substance” mean business.
Took the Groverians who watch them a while to catch up…
The IRS under Joe Biden, like the IRS under Obama, has “subjected an elections nonprofit to a battery of prying questions about its policy positions, language choices and methodology for arriving at correct opinions and conclusions prior to peremptorily rejecting its application for tax-exempt status without appeal.” [More]
Funny. They’re not doing that with Everytown or…
[Via Jess]
Documents reveal Senate Democrat pressured IRS, DOJ to target conservative groups – ‘It’s Lois Lerner on steroids’ [More]
How did the complaint go again? Oh, yeah:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Figures totalitarian wannabe Sheldon Whitehouse is one of the subversives pushing this…
[Via Jess]
That an anti-“disinformation” group is actually working to spread, not counter, disinformation is troubling enough. More troubling still is that the group was recently given tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status by the IRS. [More]
Representation without taxation, eh?
Where have we seen that before?
[Via Michael G]
Fact Check-Photos do not show IRS recruiting or training program for thousands of new armed agents [More]
What’s that saying about assumptions? I know I kneejerk made them.
As objectionable as the reality still is, it’s important for us to be precise.
That said, let’s look at the ones who aren’t accounting students on a day trip:
IRS Agents Accidentally Discharged Guns More Often than They Intentionally Fired Them
[Via Jess]
Agents actually fired their guns accidentally more often than they fired them in the field according to an audit by Treasury… [More]
Yeah, but the important thing is they went above and beyond being “willing to use deadly force, if necessary” by being willing to use it when unnecessary!
RELATED UPDATE
Practice makes perfect… [More]
“Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.” [More]
They’d taken the link down after uproar and pushback. It looks like whoever approved it decided to put it back up because it served their purpose to be clear about intent.
What could go wrong??? https://t.co/DDU5rZfDmC
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) August 9, 2022
Enrolled Agent: Conservatives Have Nothing to Fear From Beefed-up IRS as Long as They Haven’t Cheated [More]
How is this any different from “You won’t object to us searching you and your premises without a warrant and talking to you without your attorney if you have nothing to hide”?
And who believes this fascist dweeb has actual “GOP friends”?
[Via Michael G]
Tangentially-related UPDATE:
Look at some of the replies. [More]
Most of those will never even question things unless they’re caught in the net. Most have never considered the implications behind “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
[Via WiscoDave]
