(June 21, 2014 at 1:01 am)Heywood Wrote: You should give a fuck otherwise your complacency simply invites more corruption. The IRS should be taken to task and investigated. People should be jailed/fined for either obstructing justice or failure to comply with retention regulations. This applies to everyone. Chris Christie's bridge scandal, Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal, Solyndra, etc. People should call out corruption when they see it otherwise they invite more of it. Our leaders and bureaucrats need to know that being corrupt involves the taking on of significant risk. They should want to avoid even the appearance of corruption.
You missed my point. It's a little naive to think that anything substantive will come from the current proceedings. This is all political grandstanding, nothing more. This doesn't mean nobody acted inappropriately, just that it's an unnecessary witch hunt with the hope that the malfeasance can be tied directly to the administration. The obvious assumption someone has to operate with is that individual IRS employees are incapable of doing wrong without being ordered to do so.
I care about corruption, just not its manifestation in the current political side show. The "problem" has already been addressed, it's now just politics. As I've already stated, the tax code needs a complete overhaul if you want to treat the disease rather than make a great show of caring about one of the disease's symptoms. We need to eliminate the potential for this type of corruption.
