IRS – Shut ‘em
down, start over
Freedom
Outpost – Andy Withers – 5/15/2013
The IRS has
admitted they were delaying and/or blocking applications for non-profit tax
exemption by giving
conservative groups far more rigorous scrutiny than they required of
liberal groups applying for 501c3 or 501c4 status. Any group with “Tea Party”
or “Patriot” or many other common conservative terms in their group’s name was
targeted for “special treatment”. Many questions the IRS demanded of targeted
groups were clearly illegal to ask. Most of their questions would take
significant time, money, and human resources for anyone to answer. And every
answer could be sent back from the IRS marked “insufficient information”, again
and again.
We’ve also
learned the IRS has insisted that a pro-life
group must talk about pro-choice options to receive 501c3 status.
Furthermore,
we have learned that letters were written to the IRS from a group
of Democrat Senators (Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse,
Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken) demanding that actions
to “tighten the screws” be taken against conservative groups.
Applications
for 501c3 status that should have taken 3-10 months to complete have been
taking 2-3 years for these “chosen few”, and some tax exemptions have never
been granted.
We have
also learned that they passed some of these answers (containing private,
organizational information) to a liberal
journalism group, ProPublica. God only knows who they gave it to, or how it
was abused.
This kind
of abuse should have every American screaming bloody murder, and demanding
serious and lasting reform.
Laws were
ignored. No, whatever we do must be permanent. Firings are necessary, but
insufficient.
The FairTax
guarantees that no out-of-control government ever again tries to use the IRS
for attacking
opposition political organizations (e.g. the Tea Party) at the behest of
Congress or the White House. And FairTax also ensures that FedGov bureaucrats
cannot be used for enforcing
national policy mandates unrelated to basic tax collection (e.g. ObamaCare).
How can we
be sure of this outcome? Smartly, the FairTax Act closes the IRS, and it
transfers tax collection to the States. It’s a simple consumption tax, similar
to the sales tax most states already levy. So, most states are in a good
position to provide this service as contractors to the Feds. With a consumption
tax there is no need for an income tax, and therefore no need for an IRS.
The FairTax
applies a 23% (inclusive) tax to all retail sales of new goods and services.
No, it’s not a VAT, which applies a tax on goods at each stage of multi-level
manufacture, and requires a huge bureaucracy for administration. Tax collection
under the FairTax only occurs at point of sale to the consumer.
FairTax
ensures everyone gets a full paycheck- withholding is eliminated. 74,000 pages of existing tax code for 130
pages of FairTax code will save our economy hundreds of billions of dollars in
annual compliance costs.
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