from the Wall Street Journal, The ObamaCare-IRS Nexus, The supposedly independent agency harassed the administration’s political opponents and saved its health-care law, by Kimberly Strassel

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To summarize: The IRS (famed for nitpicking and prosecuting the tax law), chose to authorize hundreds of billions of illegal subsidies without having performed a smidgen of legal due diligence, and did so at the direction of political taskmasters. The agency’s actions provided aid and comfort to elected Democrats, even as it disenfranchised millions of Americans who voted in their states to reject state-run exchanges. And Treasury knows how ugly this looks, which is why it initially stonewalled Congress in its investigation—at first refusing to give documents to investigators, and redacting large portions of the information.

Administration officials will continue to use the IRS to try to improve its political fortunes. The subsidy shenanigans are merely one example. Add Democrats’ hijacking of the agency to target and silence political opponents. What you begin to see are the makings of a Washington agency—a body with the power to harass, to collect, to fine, to imprison—working on behalf of one political party. Richard Nixon, eat your heart out.

HKO

Of all of the incompetence, arrogance, and wrongheaded policies of this administration (and the list is absolutely breathtaking)  this pollution of the IRS has – in my opinion- the potential to wreak the greatest long term damage to our country.  Regardless of our political affiliations and preferences we have always been able to trust the basic institutions such as the IRS to be above this fray.  This administration has betrayed that trust more than any other president, including Nixon (the IRS refused to accommodate his intent).  This is the outcome of thinking that ends justify means – and that is the fundamental rule that modern progressivism practices.  A true liberal should be incredibly outraged.

 

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