Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.

More recently, Ingram was promoted…

Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.

The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request.

But the fact remains that taxation is theft. The only excuse for it, morally, is if it is both (1) voted democratically, and (2) kept light. Our Founding Fathers revolted over vastly smaller taxes than we have today.

With the kind of heavy taxation that the Roman empire and modern America have in common, I see little moral difference if the tax collector carries out the thefts for themselves, or instead for the government who pays for the collector’s trouble with handsome bonuses, post-retirement sinecures or consulting fees, etc., as enjoyed by our top tax collectors.

I am willing to say our “top” collectors, because I am sure that within the IRS, there are many honest and decent mid-level professionals like your aunt.

Nonetheless, taxation is: taking from people by force. That hasn’t changed in the last 2000 years. I see little moral difference if the tax collector applies physical force to people directly on his ‘collection’ rounds, or if instead he sits in an air-conditioned office in suit-and-tie and orders the bank to do collections for him. (And/or faces a neatly terrified citizenry who will mostly pay on their own.)

And now we see that our tax collectors violate the foundations of our democracy, by blocking or at least discouraging participation from the ‘wrong’ political viewpoints. I am glad you’re mad about it. Thank you for being mad about it. Everyone should be.

Yeah, Candy, it could just be a total coincidence that the actions of the IRS aligned perfectly with the goals of the Obama campaign.

Now, get back to the all-you-can-eat buffet, you leftist cow.

First off – why should we even care what these libtards think? Does anyone honestly believe you should take advice from the enemy? (And yes, the DNC is the enemy. Period.)

Second – if the Dhimmicrats are telling the GOP “not to run with it,” it means that (a) they are scared as the dickens that something else will erupt and (b) they know it will cause them to lose big in next year’s mid-term elections if we keep up the pressure.

If you’re not catching any flack, then you’re not over the target.

Peter’s memo to the GOP: Grow a pair. Quickly.

Regards,
Peter H.

Unfortunately, race is the reason why SnObama won’t ever get impeached. Both the black racist Dhimmicrats and those in the State-Run Media will never let the “first black president” ever get impeached. And watch – they will try to rehab his image in 2017 the likes of which you have never seen before.

We are so screwed.

Regards,
Peter H.

Thing is, I don’t think Obama is really in charge. I believe the Democrats have built some sort of politburo somewhere that is setting the tone of things and clearing decisions through a political lens and not from the position of running a government.

Obama and Holder know nothing about Fast and Furious or AP record confiscation. Obama and Hillary know nothing about Benghazi. Obama knows nothing about the IRS scandal or the coming EPA scandal. Nobody knows anything about anything. They are coming off like they are completely incompetent. But if you buy that, exactly who IS coordinating all of these decisions? You can’t be completely incompetent yet be so consistent on so many ways across so many different parts of the government.

It seems to me that they have quite possibly set up a government within a government of political operatives who are setting the tone on policy decisions. I believe that for the AP confiscation, Obama was advised to spike that football by someone else. I also believe that when that was foiled by the AP going public with the story hours before Obama was to do it, that same group advised DoJ to confiscate the records and retaliate against the leakers. A simple way to tell if that holds water is to look at when the confiscation was ordered. Was it ordered before AP released the story or after? If they were concerned about the leak, they would have ordered the records be obtained when they first learned that the AP had the story. If they were concerned about the political ramifications, they would have ordered the confiscation when AP published the story.

The Benghazi talking points follows the same patter. Who was really looking over the shoulders of the government operators involved? Do we have political operatives who aren’t subject to the same transparency laws calling the shots?

http://www.therightscoop.com/judge-jeanine-pirro-rips-the-obama-administration-in-another-fantastic-monologue/

I would say that the difference between IRS agents and the tax collectors of Jesus’ time was that the ancient tax collectors were basically able to defraud people by demanding more than was owed the government and personally enriching themselves enough to be conspicuously wealthy. We can complain—as I do—about excessive benefits to government employees, but IRS agents are not able to personally enrich themselves the same was as Zacchaeus could. You could say that they join what clearly is to me a corrupt system that abuses its power, but I don’t think that makes them personally corrupt in the same way the ancient tax collectors were.

My aunt recently retired from the IRS. Since then, she has moved back to Minnesota to take care of my grandma, who has mid-stage Alzheimer’s. She is a person of immense love and character, and I think most IRS agents are basically this way, even if they might not quite rise to the level of my aunt.

This may make it sound as if I’m minimizing the IRS scandal. I’m not. I’m actually fuming mad about it and want to see the investigations leave no stone unturned until we have all the answers and know who was responsible. And it does appear to me that a number of IRS employees at various levels were indeed utterly corrupt. As for the Obama administration, I’ll wait to see what the investigations turn up although it would be an understatement to say I don’t trust that they are at all innocent. I do hope though that we as conservatives can separate our appropriate indignation for the IRS and other dysfunctional, corrupt, and bloated bureaucratic government agencies and for the Obama administration from our feelings for decent individuals who happen to work for agencies like the IRS.

It’s amazing how the IRS’s “incompetence” and “not understanding the rules” only manifested itself when dealing with groups that were not committed to Barack Obama and Barack Obama’s agenda.

Which means Barack Pbama and the New York Times are lying.

V the K, seems like once again the Obama team’s excuse for wrongdoing is incompetence.

Amazing that the Times could even buy that excuse. If it was understaffed, as per this post, how did overburdened workers then find the time to craft the questions referenced above — or to expect to have the time to review the answers.

The next time a Leftist insists there is no voter fraud, remind them of the IRS playing politics to get Obama re-elected …