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By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
06/21/2013
If the Internal Revenue Service acts unlawfully, our voluntary system of citizens computing their own taxes implodes. Yet Lois Lerner, one of the IRS' top officials, would not answer simple questions about her agency's conduct during congressional testimony, instead pleading the Fifth Amendment.
Any taxpayer who tried that with an IRS auditor would end up fined and in court.
Almost everything that IRS officials have reported about the agency's unlawful targeting of conservative groups has proven false. IRS malfeasance was not limited only to the Cincinnati office, as alleged, but followed directives sent from higher-ups in Washington.
Top IRS official Lois Lerner confessed to the scandal only through a rigged and preplanned public query by a planted questioner, designed to pre-empt an upcoming critical inspector general's report.
There is legitimate dispute over both the number and purpose of former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman's visits to the White House and nearby executive office buildings, but he did his credibility no good by snidely remarking to Congress that he might also have visited for an Easter egg roll with his kids.
Read More:
Obama's League Of Liars Is Disabling Our Consensual Government - Investors.com
Of course the parsing and excuses coming from every Progressive on this issue is astounding. Blaming the little guy used to work for them except now Americans are learning differently. We now know that Mr. Shulman's aide actually visited the White House more often than his appointee superior.
06/21/2013
Truth is the lifeblood of democracy. Without honesty, the foundations of consensual government crumble.
If the Internal Revenue Service acts unlawfully, our voluntary system of citizens computing their own taxes implodes. Yet Lois Lerner, one of the IRS' top officials, would not answer simple questions about her agency's conduct during congressional testimony, instead pleading the Fifth Amendment.
Any taxpayer who tried that with an IRS auditor would end up fined and in court.
Almost everything that IRS officials have reported about the agency's unlawful targeting of conservative groups has proven false. IRS malfeasance was not limited only to the Cincinnati office, as alleged, but followed directives sent from higher-ups in Washington.
Top IRS official Lois Lerner confessed to the scandal only through a rigged and preplanned public query by a planted questioner, designed to pre-empt an upcoming critical inspector general's report.
There is legitimate dispute over both the number and purpose of former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman's visits to the White House and nearby executive office buildings, but he did his credibility no good by snidely remarking to Congress that he might also have visited for an Easter egg roll with his kids.
Read More:
Obama's League Of Liars Is Disabling Our Consensual Government - Investors.com
Of course the parsing and excuses coming from every Progressive on this issue is astounding. Blaming the little guy used to work for them except now Americans are learning differently. We now know that Mr. Shulman's aide actually visited the White House more often than his appointee superior.