little storm has gathered more force today over potential misdeeds at the ira ask tomorrow morning i'll introduce a resolution that says why don't we fire the iris agents that abuse their power but we do know is that politics was put ahead of the defend it from any impairment and allow it to be as long as it wants to be i have not done anything wrong i have not broken any laws i have not violated any i r s rules or regulations and i have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee and while i would very much like to answer the committee's questions today i've been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or into questions related to the subject matter of this hearing after very careful consideration i've just tried to follow my counsel's advice and not testify or answer any of the questions today because i'm asserting my right not to testify i know that some people will assume that i've done something wrong i have not one of the basic functions of the fifth amendment is to protect innocent individuals and that is the protection i'm invoking today thank you and as director of the ira's to vision oversee matters of tax exemption lois lerner by her own admission targeted applications by tea party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny during the months leading up to twenty two election responding to a planted question at a conference of the american bar association lerner admitted something that had been known to conservative activists in ohio for years they had been specifically targeted for illegal harassment by the i r s according to lerner the iris office in cincinnati use names like tea party or patriots and they selected cases simply because the applications had those names in the title she also acknowledged that this was absolutely incorrect had an obvious interest in suppressing the tea party movement in that state i be solemn is where i am i found our employees that i will support and defend the constitution thought about working for the federal government but they came to my college and i talked to them on a common interest and i applied and i was lucky and was hired and that it was clear to me once i was hired it was clear to me that this was really important work and it was work that i thought i would be good at it was important work for the country according to the white house visitors log on march thirty first two thousand and ten president obama had a meeting with colleen kelly president of the national treasury employees union or n t e u that union which represents iris employees had already taken a public stand in opposition to the tea party movement on the day after that meeting american spectator correspondent jeffrey miller notes that iris employees set to work in targeting the tea party and conservative groups around america a fact documented in the inspector general's report but because of their political views and therefore the souls hollow out what toward the role of government at some point it just becomes more about hating him the blood no you're coming they hate america that's really what it is they hate america i think these conservatives and right the washington examiner reports that democratic candidates received at least seventy five percent of the documented campaign contributions made by iris employees at the cincinnati office this office was involved in the agency's illegal targeting of tea party groups and other conservative activists one i r s employee interviewed by reporter tim carney belongs to a facebook group called targeted the shutdown at the tea parties which was created during the debt ceiling debate in two thousand the creators of this facebook page supported a strategy in which shutdowns in government services would be targeted at so called tea party states for example the group suggested the administration could shut down air traffic control and airports in norful tampa nashville indianapolis salt lake city and other towns with a large tea party present but to start with a story of an attack on something so american you can always put it in the same category as baseball and apple pie i'm talking about rock n roll and more specifically one of the most well known instruments that it helped create and keep rock n roll alive the obama administration has made no effort to hide the fact that it was willing to use regulatory company had violated an obscure law called the lacy act by improperly importing exotic woods from overseas no criminal charges were filed against gibson but the company was eventually forced to pay a three hundred thousand dollars penalty to the justice department in addition to a fifty thousand dollars community service payment to the national but the total cost to the company in lost inventory and legal expenses was estimated to be more than five million dollars as it happens one of the gibson the company's chief competitors the c f martin guitar company boasts in its catalogs and promotional literature that it manufactures high quality instruments using exactly the same exotic woods yet the martin company has been left alone by the feds what accounts for this disparate treatment it may be significant that gibson c e o henry just quits is a significant republican donor i am chris martin and that martin c e o chris martin the fourth is a longtime democratic well a number of media outlets are now asking whether congress needs to take a new look at a federal raid on gibson guitar these guys and women came dressed in swat gear they then seized what they said was the illegal war their fact of lee shut down the business a beloved business to many americans but a privately held perfectly lawful business they shut it down for about a month but who decided that instead of knocking on the door saying you're using the wrong ward and we're going to find you one of you don't like a fine you can challenge us phone call that a call looked like an army to invade this place because now they're the reports are that gibson ok so they're their chief executive is a big republican contributor but at the same time this company c f martin and company was using the same east indian rosewood and make their guitars there their c e o was a big a long time is democratic supporter with the tens of thousands of contributions to democratic candidates he did not get rated look the  unjustifiable the use of force of the raid was criminal to an extent unprecedented in our nation's history the obama administration has behaved look at them rolled regime employing unaccountable executive branch regulatory agencies enforcement at the federal elections commission under her direction the f e c undertook the largest enforcement action in its history sowing the christian coalition for violating campaign lost the christian coalition won the floor being appointed to head the i organizations division in two thousand and one who was head of the enforcement office at the federal election commission during the late one nine hundred ninety s an aggressive investigation of conservative groups who had opposed bill clinton and his pa focusing particularly on the christian coalition james bopp was a christian coalition's lawyer but i was shocked and appalled james bopp jr who at the time was lead counsel for the christian coalition recalls that loom subpoenaed eighty one depositions from forty eight different employees of the organization she also filed one hundred twenty seven document requests thirty two in toronto tori's and one thousand eight hundred thirteen requests for admission that is demands of the group incriminate itself and violate campaign laws she demanded that the group surrender tens of thousands of pages of documents many of them dealing with sensitive and confidential information about finances and donors similar treatment was given to each of the coalition's forty nine states elites under lois lerner's direction the f e c interior gaited activists associated with the christian coalition about the religious activities her designators demanded to know the names of people who attended prayer meetings and the nature and content of prayers offered at those meetings r some south carolina who had only a distant relationship to the christian coalition were forced to give depositions regarding their personal religious views their personal political activism and the activities of their congregations when bob learned years later that lerner had been promoted to an i r s position he became concerned she was being an effect promoted for what she had done at the federal election commission and now is going to be expected there by my route i was borrowing a page from occupy they laid claim to the sidewalks in front of the  seattle the tactics that were later employed by her ira subordinates in targeting the tea party in pro life activists in ohio and elsewhere during the twenty twelve campaign in some pro life leaders for instance were told by iris officials that they would have to describe the content of prayers offered at their meetings many other conservative groups were required to fill long detailed questionnaires regarding members donors personal associations and activities unrelated to any legitimate questions about their tax exempt underlings subjected conservative groups to invasive and as she later admitted improper scrutiny spared partisan democratic groups similar treatment in fact lerner very quickly approved a tax exemption requests filed on behalf of a group called the brock h obama foundation a suppose it charity run by the president's kenyan half brother malique obama that foundation operated illegally for five years before being shut down is a reputed conmen who's going to cuse of beating one of his twelve wives and seducing his most recent wife while she was a seventeen year old schoolgirl the foundation he named after his famous brother who was purportedly based in arlington virginia but it was never registered in that state bamma solicited funds for that foundation for three years before it received tax exempt status which is a violation of federal law nonetheless lerner prove the group's exemption requests in two thousand and eleven within a month overseeing it i have not done anything wrong i have not broken any laws i have not violated any i r s rules or regulations and i have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee and while i would very much like to answer the committee's questions today i've been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions related to the subject matter of this hearing after very careful consideration i've decided to follow my counsel's advice and not testify or answer any of the questions today although lois lerner insists that the fifth amendment protects her from accountability  has made a career out of targeting conservative activists and demanding that they incriminate themselves with his also displayed a vindictive streak in dealing with people who have been subjected to her scrutiny and emerged unscathed this was on display during her time at the f c c no she said that i asked her to put it in writing but she said they don't do that which made me in one thousand ninety six when london was in charge of the federal election commission's influence in office she conducted an several serious and d c complaints against sell the alleging violations of campaign finance regulations lerner approach selfie and offered him a deal she thought he wouldn't be able to refuse according to sell me lerner told him promise me you will never run for office again and will drop the case unlike learner's behavior in a recent campaign appearance selling points out he didn't plead the fifth and into thousands of federal judge dismissed the f t c case against him soundly recalls that lerner was shocked by the decision exclaiming we never lose and then turning to him and saying we'll get you a few weeks later sell he received a visit from f b i agents claiming to investigate a campaign contribution made by his elderly mother in two thousand and one a year after her war against selby ended with an egg nominee's courtroom debate lerner was appointed to the i r s where she would be instrumental in the obama administration's persecution of conservative activists in addition to being compulsively abusive the i r s is also immensely wasteful and notoriously incompetent after all they're not only spending other people's money they're the people who shakedown the victims in the first place irises small business and self employed division he presided over the creation of a poorly produced star trek parody used as a training video at a lavish iris employee conference held in anaheim california in two thousand and ten the total cost of those videos which boasted performances and production values inferior to homemade youtube offerings that are made for free was more than fifty thousand dollars richer chairman those videos of the offenses involved in the two thousand and ten iris conference in anaheim the event cost taxpayers at least four point one million dollars much of a devoted to lavish accommodations expensive perks and wildly overpriced motivational speakers such as one presenter who was paid seventeen thousand dollars to give a lecture about leadership through painting the public will most likely never receive any detailed accounting of how that four point one million dollars was spent this is because iris officials didn't keep receipts in order to tabulate didn't business expenses according to the inspector general's report iris management could not provide any documentation detailing how this money was spent this is because the agency in charge of conducting audit of taxpayers was not required to keep track of and report the cost of employee conferences a taxpayer who fails to keep receipts of business expenses may face tax audits fines or criminal penalties a financial officer employed by a private company who can account for millions of dollars in business expenses and expect to be fired sued and perhaps prosecuted for embezzlement but officials with the world's largest tax collection agency aren't required i named employees of the internal revenue service involved in a hugely expensive twenty ten conference in anaheim face much lighter consequences this by the fact that the conference cost taxpayers four point one million dollars most of which cannot be economic downturn since the great depression the ira spent more than fifty million dollars on employee conferences in late two thousand and eight the group of massachusetts congressman managed to set aside ninety two million dollars out of the money allocated for the wall street bailout to renovate the end over massachusetts hire a service center which was scheduled for closure no later than two thousand and nine that ira's office was devoted to processing paper returns which made it obsolete in an era when most tax returns are filed electronically democratic representative niki tsongas of massachusetts urged that money be set aside to renovate the obsolete and or ira's office according to representative tsongas the creation and preservation of jobs within the federal government are paramount for rebuilding and strengthening america's economy at a time when businesses across the country for streamlining their operations cutting costs and laying off employees the obsolete iris office in andover received its taxpayer funded make over and no expense has been spared the new building which was christened the tax mauled by understandably resentful local taxpayers is to have a reflecting pool an art gallery indoor gardens a seven thousand square foot cafeteria and an amphitheater the objective explains architect jonathan levy is to turn the iris facility into a comfortable collaborative environment it will be welcoming for the people using those comforts of course are for the benefit of the money grabbing government employees who will staff the office rather than any taxpaying victims who might pay an occasional visit it's much more likely that visitors from the productive sector already intimidated at the prospect of an interview with the i r s would be resentful as they took in the needless opulence in which their tormentors operate particularly if he understands that he helped pay for during the same period when the i r s was targeting conservative groups former i r s commissioner douglas shulman actually took the time to offer public support to a known tax cheat democratic congressman charles rangle of new york i don't want anyone to feel embarrassed awkward hey if i was you i may want me to go away joe i am not going away in two thousand and eight it was learned that congressman rangle had refused to pay taxes on seventy five thousand dollars in rental income from properties he owned in the caribbean after this was discovered  first impulse was to blame his wife alma who managed the family's finances when that didn't work he tried to assign at least some of the blame to the spanish speaking tenants of the property complaining every time i thought i was getting somewhere they start speaking spanish it was later discovered that rendell who is a longtime congressman was exceptionally wealthy was actually evading tax payments in order to qualify for hardship case rent controls on properties he maintains in new york city and the special homestead tax exemption he was claiming on his property in washington d c wrangles case from the personal attention of iris commissioner shulman who two thousand and nine travel to the congressm district in harlem new york to deal with the man personally oddly enough the commissioner didn't bring a set of handcuffs instead he came to make a personal appearance with representative wrangle in the town hall meeting someone described wrangle was multiple violations of the tax code and deliberate fraud would be enough to land most people in prison as one of the leaders in this country and tax policy issues and said that he was honored to be on stage with them at what the president proposed is that working with the bill that passed the house which included a provision that i think mr kanjorski authored to give the government the ability to limit risk taking by banks congressman rangle was not the only federal official retain his high position despite tax delinquencies that would trigger severe iris enforcement actions if committed by common citizens when timothy geithner was nominated to be secretary of the treasury it was learned that he had refused to pay medicare and sold security taxes for several years despite the fact that his employer the international monetary fund would have fully reimbursed him but two thousand and six audit of mr geithner's taxes discovered other irregularities including dubious dependent child abductions these irregularities would be sufficient to provoke punitive action by the i r s if once again they turned up in the tax history of an ordinary taxpayer geitner as it turned out had nothing to worry about he was quickly confirmed by the senate to be treasury secretary o that requires among other things competence in accounting and an understanding of the tax code the seventy six year old queens resident shocked a crowd gathered in rockefeller center to watch a taping of the today show when he grabbed two knives and slashed his wrists the agitated man told the crowd that the iris my life leaving him all but penniless and unable to pay his rent mr barr who has a history of psychological problems may or may not have been a victim of the i r s but countless people have seen their lives and livelihoods ruined by the tax collection rate stack how can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system here we have a system that is by far too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand yet it mercilessly holds accountable its victims claiming that they're responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand the law requires a signature on the bottom of a tax filing yet no one can say truthfully that the understand what they are signing if that's not to ras then what is if this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime nothing for many years staff pension you work within the system watching his businesses decline and seeing his mouth about break after being taught and earnestly believing in the rule of law in observing the criminal conduct of the government that demanded his loyalty stack came to conclude that violence is the only answer is social commentator general so one day observes when people lose everything and have nothing left to lose they lose it so in february eighteenth two thousand and ten stack set fire to his home field up his piper cherokee play twenty eight and said course for the i r s office in austin i saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to be different stacks no concluded i'm finally ready to stop this insanity well mr big brother i arrest man let's try something different take my pound of flesh and sleep well following stack's despairing gesture of defiance toward the agency that persecuted in that room does business myra of the so called southern poverty law center which works as a private intelligence agency on behalf of the feds condemned his action as a form of domestic terrorism cording to by rick this morning's attack by joseph andrew stack against an iris building in austin texas is a reminder again of how extreme hatred of government can morph into violence neither she nor anyone else at the s p see bother to prescribe the proper attitude toward a government that can ruin a man's career and financial prospects through a small change in the vast and all but inscrutable tax code nor has the s p l see or other self annoyed arbiters of the acceptable political attitudes displayed concern over the hatred towards tax victims that can be found spewing from the i r s or the violence that frequently results from it but the pattern of good afternoon mr chairman members of the senate finance committee my name is david at no i am currently in an a in our old age and contemporary of california representing taxpayers before the collection divisions of the internal revenue service for over seven years prior to this i was a revenue officer for the internal revenue service for over ten years during my tenure with the i r s i was a revenue officer and on the job instructor for training revenue officers and instructor for revenue officer training schools phase one and phase two sessions and offer a compromise specialist and an advisor and a special procedures function i have worked in anchorage alaska shreveport louisiana and brooklyn new york i r s offices which provided me with a great opportunity to see how collection worked in different areas of the country now working as a taxpayer's advocate i have had the opportunity to see things from the other side it is from this wide range of experience that i speak to you today despite what i believe to great to be a rather unique background i have found dealing with the i r s personnel to be quite disturbing in a few cases and downright maddening in others in testimony before congress from iris district chief david had no effectively describe the agency is a terrorist group that is an organization that uses the threat of lethal violence to terrorize people into surrendering villages million plight of wealth the courting of pat no more taxes collected by fear and intimidation and by the law people are afraid of the iris in recent years the i r s has adopted to post that they are providing services to taxpayers whom they refer to as customers but the supposed service they render is the seizure of wealth from their purported customers who are more accurately described as victims calling a tax payer a customer of the iris is a bit like referring to a rape victim i'm guarding moments iris of the shills will admit that rather than providing a service their way you won the public this was made clear in the memoir confessions of a tax collector by former iris revenue officer richard tax victims their car their paychecks the roof over their head in the heads of their children without dehumanizing them without casting yourself in a role that by necessity makes them the enemy one of the a n c supervisors considered up against a wall and shoot the because of her dedication to the ira have before on mr chairman senators thank you for allowing me to come before you this afternoon to provide an accounting of the activities within the internal manual are used to extract unfairly assess taxes from taxpayers literally ruining families and businesses all unnecessarily and sometimes illegally like any  vulnerabilities can be best on a perception that the taxpayer has limited formal education has suffered a personal tragedy is having a financial crisis or may not necessarily have a solid grasp of their legal rights please understand many arrogance are encouraged by management to pursue texas s months that have no basis in tax law from individuals who simply can't pry fair however if that taxpayer does object or lavish company retreats and training sessions a videotape training lecture presented to iris employees in the arkansas oklahoma district illustrates that the agency deliberately cultivated sadism and cruelty as part of its official culture in his lecture the iris trainer referring to the agencies dictums told his audience to make them cry we don't give points around here for being good scouts the word isn't forced if that's not tattooed on your forehead or somewhere else then you need to get it in force and seizure and sales deaths are mindset you're not out there to take any prisoners prisoners alike an installment agreement they have to be fed and clothed  housed all that stuff they're expensive we're not here to do that if you've got an assessment in force collection until they come to their knees in the american view society is ruled by law rather than  man the only legitimate role for government is the protection of life and property contending the use of government are mutually exclusive which of them is embraced by the i in his memoir former i r s agent richard b n c recalls a similar training session in which he and other future revenue agents were told by the instructor that the i r s had no use for those who anguished over each closure as if their decisions meant life or death for the taxpayer one trainee who had not been fully indoctrinated objected that the decision to confiscate the tax victim's money in property very often is a matter of life and death that prompted the supervisor to explain that the irises mission has nothing at all to do with doing the right thing for the taxpayer rather was that of protecting the government's interest but what if the government's interest is wrong persisted the trainee our interest is never wrong or right rejoined the supervisor in a reply worthy of his kindred spirits in the service of other totalitarian force and organs it just is obama's most children istic defenders are claiming either that the iris acted appropriately in targeting the president's political critics or that complaining about its abuses is merely a covert form of racism this ignores the fact that richard nixon faced impeachment for using the i r s in precisely the same fashion that the obama administration employed it that is as a cudgel to beat intimidate the president's owners but the i r s targeting scandal is merely one manifestation of a far deadlier problem namely the very existence of the income tax and the i r s itself in his classic one nine hundred fifty four book the income tax route of all evil the scholar fr that enactment of the sixteenth amendment in one nine hundred thirteen transformed the government into one alien of the american tradition america is no longer the america of the declaration of independence from that time the american government has actually asserted what it believes to be a superior claim on everything each of us earns and then arbitrarily tells us how much we will be permitted to keep or as a jar of summarizes the government's implicit message your earnings are not exclusively your own we have a claim on them and our claim precedes yours we will allow you to keep some of it because we recognize your need not your right but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide two thousand and thirteen the world observes the one hundredth anniversary of the sixteenth amendment which imposed the income tax and the creation of the federal reserve system the fed as it's known is the world's most powerful central bank a privately owned institution that acts as an official arm of the u s government it prints currency to pay the debts and operating expenses of the government and sells that currency to the government at a profit and as the current fed chairman ben bernanke he points out there is no theoretical limit to the amount of money the fed can create out of nothing this brings up an interesting question if the fed can simply print money why does the government bother to collect taxes at all the answer to that question ironically was provided by a federal reserve official name bird in the january one thousand nine hundred six issue of american affairs magazine romel at the time chairman of the federal reserve bank of new york published an essay bearing the provocative title taxes for revenue are obsolete during world war two rimmel had helped implement the automatic payroll tax system which has remained in place ever since as a fed official he understood how monetary inflation works as an architect of the withholding mechanism he knew how the tax system operates he was therefore uniquely qualified to explain why income taxes are collect introduction two roubles article offered a tidy summary of his the use his disses is that given control of a central banking system and in convertible currency that is one not that my gold a sovereign national government is finally free of money worries and need no longer levy taxes for the purpose of providing itself with revenue all taxation therefore should be regarded from the point of view of social and economic consequences boiled down to its essence what romel was saying is  the us government doesn't need to collect income taxes to fund its operations instead it uses the tax code for the purpose of social engineering don't have health insurance right now or on the individual market  paying exorbitant amounts for covers that isn't that great and what we're doing is we're setting up a pool so that they can all pool together and get a better deal from insurance companies and those who can't afford it we're going to provide them with act will not actually make health care affordable or expand coverage to the uninsured however it did provide a huge expansion of the irises powers and its personnel base under obamacare the i r s will have access to the confidential scandal right and how they've been targeting conservatives tea party stuff like that turns out the woman in charge of those for cracking down on the five a one say to cut trees and force sarah hall engram this is a radical new mission for the iris one that will now joe what a really led you to seek a position with the i r s well i had a number of friends and family who were in law enforcement in fact some of my brothers are actually police officers and i wanted to use my financial training and skills to serve in a law enforcement capacity myself so i looked around for the best opportunities for someone with a financial background like myself and i found the i criminal investigation division could was a place where i could actually utilize my skills and it was really quite disappointed after three years into that career to learn just how many lies the iris and the federal government were telling to the american public and i refused to take part in it i asked questions of my supervisors and wanted to get to the truth of the matter and my supervisors at the i r s would not cooperate with me in any way and even though they had outs for decades in their literature in their internal manuals has used the word voluntary very very frequently and the reason they do that is of course because the federal income tax to a large segment of the population has to be voluntary in order to maintain its constitutionality but in day to day practice the i r s pulls out a club and basically beats the american people with that so looking at the irises conduct versus what they say in their literature would give an american posit they would just take a look at and compare i used to be in the lunchroom with other special agents criminal investigators of the i r s and there was really a very flippant attitude towards the public i don't recall anyone ever saying that they'd line him up and shoot them but a very flippen now city out of two towards the public and i think that's an demick in the iris culture because so much of what the i r s does is wrong it's illegal it's immoral and i think that this has an effect on the agents and so basically all that they can do is laugh and joke make make fun of the american people of the taxpayers and i was quite uncomfortable with that kind of an attitude i'm sure i wouldn't be surprised if it got to the point where they would make a glee statements like that it is quite common that you'll see joking and nasty statements towards the public and i don't think it's necessary and i think again it's in demick within the i r s because of what they do on a day to day face of the way that they when it comes to collection and for n they will try to they will get an assessment in a legal manner commit fraud in their computer systems do whatever it takes to generate a ny arrest notice that tells the recipient that they owe tax when it comes to the collection phase the enforced collection phase the agents will do whatever's necessary to tell banks whatever is necessary to get the money out of the bank account lie the county recorder's about the legitimacy of a lien or a tax that there's just there's hardly any accountability on the average iris agent to obey the law and many of these agents don't even know what the law says they just listen to their supervisor who tells them what to do so you're saying the virus actively lies to banks and other official entities in order to get money from the american people i'm afraid  so the agents will actually see there's this fervor inside the i r s it grips the agents that they have to collect the tax money and they they believe what they're doing largely is right but the the problem is as you've probably seen with you know federal state local law enforcement sometimes in their vigor to enforce the law or get the bad guys they'll break the law in doing that and of course i think that's very prevalent in the i r s among all the agencies the fact of the matter is that again this is something that drives me crazy that the american people don't pay closer attention to and that is how many lawmakers how many government officials you know give their collective fingers to the american people and to the government about their own tax obligations and they're the government officials are are largely the biggest cheats there are and when there is these confirmation hearings and other scrutiny the truth comes out that they are about as hypocritical as one can get and i fail to understand why the american people don't get more upset and do something about this double standard where the american people are expected to dot every i and cross every t but all these officials who are ministering the system even the treasury secretary himself are not dotting i's and crossing t's and they're actually cheating not only the system but  americans and i think you know if i had any advice to give the average government employee it would be sure your paycheck and your pension are important but they're not near as important as doing your duty and obeying your oath now joe when you when you went to your superiors and you asked them about the law in the voluntary tax system they asked you to resign and you did so was there any retribution after you spoke out publicly not initially but i resigned penalties they're really doing everything they can to try to silence me they haven't been successful so far as you can see them accept the invitation to appear on your show but they do have a lot of power that they wield and i discourage people from taking on the i r s one on one but there's a great deal of research and investigation and fact finding that every american can do it without necessarily taking any action but gather  educate yourself first and then you'll have a better idea about how to proceed and i do find that people who find out about all these frauds in the medical establishment or and the taxes stablish meant they want to take them all on at once and i find that that's really poor strategy just from from personal experience and realizing that i needed to choose my battles but even my colleagues and other people that i've encountered out in america so take your time do your educating of yourself it will take time to do that and don't take any action until you've really thought it out and looked at the landscape you know to see what dangers might be follow you i have not done anything wrong i have not broken any laws i have not violated any i r s rules or regulations and i have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee she said she'd result the situation she said she had stopped the targeting of conservative groups a year later she demands a group fulfill a request for the inappropriate personally but if you really want to test a man give him power is there anything but this is because rush was actually held accountable for the iris uses fear and violence to force people to submit to its will not because it's collecting revenue to fund vinal government operations but rather as part of a program of social engineering within just a few years this agency that moves from terror to lean charge not only of our wealth but o health as well that's when we will no longer have to choose between death and taxes because both of those matters will be in the hands of the i