Time: Fri Sep 26 17:18:13 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10117; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:18:28 -0700 (MST) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA26202; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:02:21 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:01:49 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: IRS hearings (fwd) All the more reason to sharpen those wooden stakes, and start swinging those sledge hammers, to build momentum. Our Congress is criminal. Period. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://supremelaw.com <snip> > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >=============================================== >NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY >2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 >Washington DC 20037 >=============================================== >For release: September 25, 1997 >=============================================== >For additional information: >George Getz, Deputy Director of Communications >Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 >E-Mail: 76214.3676@CompuServe.com >=============================================== > > >Libertarians ask: If the IRS is so terrible, >why did Congress just increase its budget? > > WASHINGTON, DC -- The IRS is a "troubled agency" that is >"terrorizing innocent Americans and wrecking our lives," Congress >says -- so why did it just vote to increase the agency's budget by $600 >million? > > That's the question Libertarians are asking today as >politicians listen to three days of Congressional hearings about IRS >abuses. > > "You don't increase a bully's allowance just before you spank >him," said the Libertarian Party's national chairman Steve Dasbach. >"But that's exactly what Congress has done. > > "Politicians just voted to give the Internal Revenue Service >$600 million more -- so IRS agents can file more erroneous tax >assessments, target more defenseless mom-and-pop businesses for >harassment, use more fake names to cover their crimes, and drive more >taxpayers to suicide," he said. > > Those are the kinds of tragic and outrageous stories that the >Senate Finance Committee is hearing from abused taxpayers -- stories >that are being corroborated by IRS agents wearing hoods to protect >their identities, he noted. > > "This week, America is hearing in graphic detail the crimes >committed by the IRS," said Dasbach. "They are also seeing Republican >and Democratic politicians pretend to be outraged about how the IRS >breaks the law, tramples our rights, and rifles through our pockets. > > "But just one week before they held this public hearing, these >politicians voted to increase the budget of the agency they are now >criticizing. Libertarians want to know: If Congress wants to rein in >the IRS, why did Congress give it more money to terrorize more >Americans and wreck more lives?" > > And while the hearings go on, the IRS continues to grow, >Dasbach noted. It already has 102,000 employees -- who are busy >investigating, prying, fining, filing criminal charges, and seizing >property. Last year alone, the IRS filed 750,000 liens against >taxpayers, imposed 3.2 million fines, and seized 10,000 pieces of >property. > > And the IRS is also busy keeping lists of Americans who >exercise their First Amendment rights by criticizing the agency, >according to new testimony. > > IRS historian Shelley Davis testified that the IRS illegally >maintains files of so-called "tax protesters" -- people whose only >"crime" might have been to write a letter to a newspaper criticizing >the IRS or the income tax. For IRS agents, "criticism of the IRS or the >income tax equals tax protester," she testified to the Senate Finance >Committee. > > Ironically, if that accusation is true, the IRS now considers >several U.S. Senators criminals, noted Dasbach. > > For example, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, >Republican Senator William Roth, said the IRS engages in "abusive and >illegal acts," and Republican Senator Don Nickles said the IRS has an >"unbelievable power to wreck lives." > > Yet, despite all the hash criticism, Dasbach predicted that the >hearings will end without any significant reforms to the IRS. > > "Once the cameras are turned off, not one dollar will be cut >from the IRS budget, not one IRS supervisor will be fired, and not one >IRS lawbreaker will be sent to jail," he said. "Politicians say they >want to protect us from the government agencies they've created. But >don't believe them. > > "When these IRS bullies are finished testifying about their >criminal acts, they will take off their hoods and go back to work, >terrorizing American taxpayers. It will take more than one >grandstanding Congressional hearing to make politicians realize that >the only way to protect us from the IRS is to abolish it," he said. > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: 2.6.2 > >iQCVAwUBNCskJdCSe1KnQG7RAQFzRQQAvXV97HSr/tj15NG0yA27TE/E6Ma588Dx >JV2tD4uG3hVTwM0vDV3Y7pHnbhfeT1Avl5UC4kUEJNW/2nFWzLZ2LjugORNG6aSb >g4xsBAldOXkynfs/mHkHbfit+FTiiv8GQzBlYRqRYsuOq3F/u/zA2ZROuXBxOaES >RNkjCpviTN4= >=7L+s >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >The Libertarian Party http://www.lp.org/ >2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Suite 100 voice: 202-333-0008 >Washington DC 20037 fax: 202-333-0072 > >For subscription changes, please mail to <announce-request@lp.org> with the >word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject line -- or use the WWW form. > > >STEVEN R. 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