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Relevance: 48% Posted on: February 12, 2014
“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview . . . and with a straight face. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: July 26, 2023
The Internal Revenue Service says it will end “most” surprise visits to homes, like the one an agent made to the home of journalist Matt Taibbi the day he was telling Congress about governmental use of social media to censor people. According to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, the many surprise…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: November 2, 2014
Click on over to Townhall for what the next Congress — the country's 114th — really needs. Hint: it isn't cowardice. Then come back here for more reading. Breitbart: True The Vote's Lawsuit Against IRS Gets Tossed By Federal Judge NYTimes: Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: August 28, 2013
We are indebted to a publisher of tax information called Tax Analysts for its efforts to make the Internal Revenue Service slightly more accountable. The IRS finds itself beleaguered, sort of, by scandal — the fallout from their practice of impeding applications for tax-exempt status of Tea Party and other…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: March 9, 2015
On Friday I lamented the picking up, by local police, of two children, 10 and 6, for walking home from a local park . . . and the subsequent two-month Montgomery County (Maryland) Child Protective Services investigation, which found the parents “responsible” for “unsubstantiated child neglect.” Left unanswered? Whether parents…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: March 22, 1999
The IRS estimates that the average taxpayer who itemizes will spend 22 hours this year completing tax returns. That's 3 hours more work than last year. The increase is due to the 1,260 changes Congress pushed into the tax code in the past two years. Mention the IRS and most…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: September 16, 2014
Is the Internal Revenue Service inevitable? I’ve often discussed the IRS’s ideologically motivated harassment of taxpayers as fostered by Lois “I Took the Fifth” Lerner (e.g., here and here and here and here). But typical nonpartisan forms of IRS harassment are also deplorable. Consider the so-called “practice” audit, to which…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: June 8, 2013
Oversight is worse in the national security bureaucracy than it is in the IRS: http://youtu.be/whwc6lVZzl4
Relevance: 43% Posted on: September 18, 2000
We were the first country in which a free people created the government. The Constitution that empowered our government also limited it. But Americans weren't satisfied that our rights were protected from tyranny until the Bill of Rights was passed, too. That's why I'm concerned about several stories that suggest…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: May 24, 2013
It was no fun to watch Acting IRS head Steve Miller testify before the House Ways and Means Committee last week. Miller simply had no real explanation for the troubling actions at IRS. Even his terminology induced cringes. Miller’s mea culpa was for “horrific customer service.” Customer service? That’s a…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2014
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2015
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2016
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2017
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2018
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: September 8, 2009
If a doctor who is supposed to help you get better keeps stabbing you with a knife instead, it may seem beside the point to focus on any particular wound. The whole stabbing process is wrong. Democrats in Congress have found a way to duplicate this effect. Their evolving medical…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: May 18, 2015
Lyndon McLellan, a convenience store owner, was robbed. The marauders took $107,000 of his honestly earned money. We don’t need the police to find out who did it (and no, the police themselves are not the culprit, not this time). The IRS took the money, suspecting that he “structured” his…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 16, 2022
Backlash can be good. Against lousy ideas, for example. Sometimes, the response to the backlash is to relinquish the lousy idea, at least temporarily. We must hope for more than a moment of reprieve from the Internal Revenue Service’s plan to require facial ID recognition of persons who use certain…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: June 17, 2014
“If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the latter.” In his day, Mr. Jefferson was attuned to a hyper-partisan, mudslinging, muckraking, bulldog press corps, not our modern mainstream media lapdogs. Today, with our government taking…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: May 18, 2013
You don’t need an explanation. These aren’t the partisan political abuses you’re looking for. Move along. It was all a big mistake. An unfortunate, accidental error. And “what difference does it make?” anyway, since according to the New York Times headline, the “I.R.S. Apologizes to Tea Party Groups Over Audits…