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The IRS Scandal: Just Another Day at the Office
By Michael Schaus
May 31, 2013 

We should be crystal clear on the IRS scandal: while the targeting of conservative groups is grotesquely reminiscent of a banana republic technocracy, the larger problem is the inherent authoritarian nature of America’s Internal Revenue Service. There are certainly specific chapters of this growing scandal that promise to highlight the thuggish nature of our current Administration, and even more chapters that promise to expose the righteous infringement of government power; but the fact remains that, even in its most secular and non-partisan form, the IRS continues to be the most un-American institution most of us will encounter in our lifetime. 

According to the Daily Caller: 

Publicly released records show that embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times during the Obama administration, more recorded visits than even the most trusted members of the President’s Cabinet. 

In fact, the unprecedented number of visits become even more appalling when they are compared to George W Bush’s relationship with the agency. Bush met with Shulman’s predecessor only once in four years. Although, in all fairness, Bush may have been a little too busy running the country to fit in a business lunch with the director of the IRS. Maybe Obama just had some questions regarding tax-deductible golf expenses? 

Of course the extremely cozy relationship between the White House and the Internal Revenue Service does not bode well for the Administration. But we would be wise to keep in mind that this is merely the symptom of a larger problem 

According to McClatchy Newspaper’s Washington Bureau, a group of anti-abortion activists in Iowa were forced “to promise the Internal Revenue Service it wouldn’t picket in front of Planned Parenthood.” Once again we (as freedom loving Americans) should feel a chill run down our spine. Tax exempt status being used as leverage for the elimination of someone’s First Amendment rights.  Again. . . This is a symptom. This is not, by itself, the cancer that is consuming our American tradition… 

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