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IRS agent showed up at Taibbi's house while he was testifying before Congress

Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:41 pm
Posted by Bobby OG Johnson
Member since Apr 2015
33208 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:41 pm
quote:


Michael Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD

While ?@mtaibbi? & I were testifying before Congress on the weaponization of the federal government, an IRS agent showed up at his house. What an amazing coincidence


quote:

“When did the IRS start to dis­patch agents for sur­prise house calls?. If the IRS wants to au­dit a re­turn, it sched­ules a meet­ing at the agent’s of­fice. It doesn’t drop by unan­nounced.”


quote:

“The cu­ri­ous tim­ing of this visit, on the heels of the FTC de­mand that Twit­ter turn over names of jour­nal­ists, raises ques­tions about po­ten­tial in­tim­i­da­tion, and Mr. Jor­dan is right to want to see doc­u­ments and com­mu­ni­ca­tions re­lat­ing to the Taibbi visit.”


quote:

“Mr. Taibbi has pro­vided the com­mit­tee with doc­u­men­ta­tion show­ing his 2018 re­turn had been elec­tron­i­cally ac­cepted, and he says the IRS never no­ti­fied him or his ac­coun­tants of a prob­lem af­ter he filed that 2018 re­turn more than four-and-a-half years ago.”


Twitters


Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103446 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:42 pm to
Four and a half years? Those frickers are throwing shite against the wall blindly trying to claim something before the period prescribes.

Having bullshite accusation keeps the period active from an enforcement perspective.
Posted by Texas Weazel
Louisiana is a shithole
Member since Oct 2016
8946 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:45 pm to
Democrats are doing everything they claimed Trump would do. I'm pretty moderate, but they're definitely making lean more right as every day passes.
Posted by tigerfan 64
in the LP
Member since Sep 2016
6327 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:46 pm to
quote:

“When did the IRS start to dis­patch agents for sur­prise house calls?. If the IRS wants to au­dit a re­turn, it sched­ules a meet­ing at the agent’s of­fice. It doesn’t drop by unan­nounced.”

It was probably in the fine print of the EO obama signed giving IRS agents the black, scary, military grade assault weapons and purchased 100s of 1000s of rounds of ammo.

Those revenuers gotta protect themselves from taxpayers.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
14778 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:48 pm to
quote:

Having bullshite accusation


If it's the IRS, it's their truth that rules, even if it isn't the reality.

I think everyone needs to get a letter from the IRS, and then nobody would vote for Democrats or RINOs.


Posted by tigerfan 64
in the LP
Member since Sep 2016
6327 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:49 pm to
quote:

Democrats are doing everything they claimed Trump would do. I'm pretty moderate, but they're definitely making lean more right as every day passes.

The rest of us appreciate your unbiased assessment of the modern democrat party.
Keep your eyes affixed on what they do, do not listen to what they say.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
14778 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:56 pm to
quote:

modern democrat party


That lays out pretty clearly where you lie. Do you define modern as post LBJ when they destroyed the black family? Post Civil War when they ran the Klan? What is "modern" to you? I bet it's a flexible definition depending on the situation and who is on the other side.
Posted by DMagic
#ChowderPosse
Member since Aug 2010
50272 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:58 pm to
These same people call conservatives fascists
Posted by tigerfan 64
in the LP
Member since Sep 2016
6327 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:08 pm to
quote:

That lays out pretty clearly where you lie. Do you define modern as post LBJ when they destroyed the black family? Post Civil War when they ran the Klan? What is "modern" to you? I bet it's a flexible definition depending on the situation and who is on the other side.

Hell, I dont need to generalize LBJ to present. We can just call it from their conception.
Posted by Deuces
The bottom
Member since Nov 2011
16696 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:12 pm to
Wow. They had to go out of their way to find that, too.

IRS usually never looks at a return past 3 years.

It’s basically a 1 out of a million deal.
Posted by Marshhen
Port Eads
Member since Nov 2018
981 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:20 pm to
And they want to fund 87,000 armed IRS agents …
Posted by ksayetiger
Centenary Gents
Member since Jul 2007
70274 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:47 pm to
They are prosecuting people before they have a crime.

Stalin would be proud
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
10508 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:51 pm to


Is there an IRS legal requirement to keep records more than 3 years?
Posted by Bobby OG Johnson
Member since Apr 2015
33208 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:08 pm to
quote:

Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
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“House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter Monday to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seeking an explanation for why journalist Matt Taibbi received an unannounced home visit from an IRS agent.”


Posted by TerryDawg03
The Deep South
Member since Dec 2012
17824 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:45 pm to
Modern Democrats are going to lose the liberal base if they’re not careful.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
95214 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:46 pm to
Not so subtle intimidation.
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
23278 posts
Posted on 3/28/23 at 1:38 am to
quote:

Modern Democrats are going to lose the liberal base if they’re not careful.

That's a scary thought; when you start to see the folks in power both openly disdainful and arrogant, AND they begin to drop pretenses of caring about their base, that's often a sign they no longer need the public's backing to keep control.

Hell, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it's possible we've already had the soft coup. It's a digital society, but very few people understand how the software that counts and confirms votes works; and most of the industry that does, supports the side that won. And there's so much cultural antagonism being spread online, we're so split up and at odds with each other (sometimes over stupid things), that there's always going to be some doubt that THEY (the supposed other side) voted for that jackass we thought nobody wanted. For example- did John Bel really win, did that many Abraham voters really swing D or skip the polls entirely? We think so, because faceless posts online said they did.

Like I said, I don't believe this has happened yet, but it's getting closer to being a possibility.
Posted by jp4lsu
Member since Sep 2016
6548 posts
Posted on 3/28/23 at 6:10 am to
This is why Trump should've gotten behind Jason Chaffetz and the IRS committee he was wanting to investigate and go after them. This is a major reason Chaffetz retired because Trump wasn't interested in going after the IRS.
You guys remember the IRS targeting conservative groups under Obama. Well now we have 85,000 new agents coming ready to target conservatives.
This was a major error by Trump in his promise to drain the swamp.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
36788 posts
Posted on 3/28/23 at 6:26 am to
You do realize that the weasels will say that they cannot comment on an "investigation"
Posted by ItNeverRains
Offugeaux
Member since Oct 2007
28166 posts
Posted on 3/28/23 at 6:27 am to
Want to red pill a lib journalist? This is how you red pill a lib journalist. Taibbi getting the gold star treatment from 3 letter folks.
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