"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Heads will NOT roll, only mid-level supervisors "reassigned". The only problem is that they got caught - for shame! Naughty-naughty! Nothing new or "game-changing" here.
Gives you a world of confidence in the IRS running our health care system, doesn't it?
I work for the Feds, Swampie. Not the IRS, which is far more predatory than my agency, but enough so as to realize this was not a "grass roots" operation.
Deborah said... "They" expect, and insist we forget. The pattern is always the same. Someone will take the fall. The outrage will die. But the hatchet will remain securely in place...where they buried it. It's "Groundhog Day".
If the Infernal Revenue Service has resources to waste on political harassment of the Administration's opponents, contrary to law, then it has funding it doesn't need to carry on its legitimate functions. Cut its budget by fifty percent. For example, fire the 16,000 most recent hires (the ones recruited to enforce Obamacare's taxes). This will help reduce the deficit, meet the requirements of the sequester, and make everybody else in the ocuntry happy.
While we are on the subject of government waste and malevolence, if Obamacare is a revenue measure (and it survived its SC challenge by allegedly being a tax bill), since it originated in the Senate and not the House it is by that criterion unconstitutional, since revenue bills must originate in the House. Pasting the Senate's bill into an otherwise empty HR numbered bill is not sufficient to make it a bill originating in the House, since by that means any revenue bill can be made to conform to the constitutionally-demanded criterion for origination in the House. Since that would evade, indeed violate, the clear requirement of the Constitution, it cannot be a valid mechanism for introducing revenue bills.
You are correct that Justice Robert's opinion that Obamacare is constitutional because it is a "tax" also renders it unconstitutional because it is a tax bill that originated in the Senate -- which is why the Obama administration so loudly and persistently argued that it was NOT a tax.
The world we live in will only become more Kafka-esque in the future. You have been warned.
Apologies are not enough. Conviction and substantial prison time, as per the LAW, is what should be done.
ReplyDeleteApologies are not enough. Conviction and substantial prison time, as per the LAW, is what should be done.
ReplyDeleteOh, snap. We're having that redundancy problem again.
ReplyDeleteOh, snap. We're having that redundancy problem again.
ReplyDeleteOh, snap. We're having that redundancy problem again.
ReplyDeleteWill one click make four iterations this time? Enquiring minds want to know?
ReplyDeleteRevenge of the spammers, SW?
ReplyDeleteI want to see heads rolls. High level heads.
ReplyDeleteHeads will NOT roll, only mid-level supervisors "reassigned". The only problem is that they got caught - for shame! Naughty-naughty! Nothing new or "game-changing" here.
ReplyDeleteGives you a world of confidence in the IRS running our health care system, doesn't it?
If any of y'all ever worked for the IRS, you know this didn't come from some low-level supervisor.
ReplyDeleteI work for the Feds, Swampie. Not the IRS, which is far more predatory than my agency, but enough so as to realize this was not a "grass roots" operation.
ReplyDeleteDeborah said... "They" expect, and insist we forget. The pattern is always the same. Someone will take the fall. The outrage will die. But the hatchet will remain securely in place...where they buried it. It's "Groundhog Day".
ReplyDeleteIf the Infernal Revenue Service has resources to waste on political harassment of the Administration's opponents, contrary to law, then it has funding it doesn't need to carry on its legitimate functions. Cut its budget by fifty percent. For example, fire the 16,000 most recent hires (the ones recruited to enforce Obamacare's taxes). This will help reduce the deficit, meet the requirements of the sequester, and make everybody else in the ocuntry happy.
ReplyDeleteWhile we are on the subject of government waste and malevolence, if Obamacare is a revenue measure (and it survived its SC challenge by allegedly being a tax bill), since it originated in the Senate and not the House it is by that criterion unconstitutional, since revenue bills must originate in the House. Pasting the Senate's bill into an otherwise empty HR numbered bill is not sufficient to make it a bill originating in the House, since by that means any revenue bill can be made to conform to the constitutionally-demanded criterion for origination in the House. Since that would evade, indeed violate, the clear requirement of the Constitution, it cannot be a valid mechanism for introducing revenue bills.
Michael Lonie,
ReplyDeleteYou are correct that Justice Robert's opinion that Obamacare is constitutional because it is a "tax" also renders it unconstitutional because it is a tax bill that originated in the Senate -- which is why the Obama administration so loudly and persistently argued that it was NOT a tax.
The world we live in will only become more Kafka-esque in the future. You have been warned.
IRS = Infernal Robbery Syndicate.
ReplyDelete"The IRS is the closest thing in America to the Nazi Gestapo."
ReplyDeletemojo,
ReplyDeleteOnce they get "Special Weapons and Tactics" teams of their very own, they WILL be the Gestapo.
Although they might prefer a comparison to the NKVD...
Spiny: Now that right there is a very scary thought.
ReplyDeleteY'all never heard of the Treasury Police?
ReplyDeleteAnd the Secret Service reports to the Treasury. Convenient, it already has the right initials.
ReplyDeleteIn a government where the Department of Education has SWAT teams, I assume the IRS already has its Frank Nittis.