Empowering the IRS Via Bailout

It seems that the bailout bill has not just raised the indebtedness of every American by more than $2,000. It also further empowers the IRS, as though that organization needed power. IRS undercover operations: Privacy invasion? The bailout bill also gives the Internal Revenue Service new authority to conduct undercover operations. It would immunize the IRS from a passel of federal laws, including permitting IRS agents to run businesses for an extended sting operation, to open their own personal bank accounts with U.S. tax dollars, and so on. (Think IRS agents posing as accountants or tax preparers and saying, “I’m … Continue reading Empowering the IRS Via Bailout