Thursday, May 16, 2013

IRS TEA PARTY “ENFORCER” PROMOTED TO OBAMACARE “ENFORCER”


IRS Official who oversaw unit targeting Tea party now heads ObamaCare office
Fox News – 5/16/2013

WASHINGTON – The IRS official who led the tax-exempt organizations unit when Tea Party groups were targeted is now in charge of the IRS office responsible for ObamaCare, two Capitol Hill sources told Fox News.

The acknowledgement comes after the administration announced that the official’s successor -- who had only been on the job a few days -- would be retiring. And it fueled criticism of the agency, as the outgoing IRS commissioner prepared to face lawmakers’ questions at a hearing Friday morning.

“Stunning. Just stunning,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in reaction to the latest development.

The ObamaCare official in question, Sarah Hall Ingram, had been serving as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations from 2009 to 2012 -- the division included the group that targeted Tea Partiers -- and has since left to serve as director of the IRS' Affordable Care Act division. That unit is responsible for enforcing parts of the health care law, including the fines associated with the so-called individual mandate -- the requirement to buy health insurance.

Allegations that the IRS had been targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status date back years but a government report released this week backed up the claims.

"Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," Obama said.
Republican leaders were quick to call out Obama for being too passive with the situation and demanded more be done.

"This is runaway government at its worst," McConnell said Thursday. "Who knows who they will target next? The truth will come out. It always does."


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