In the choking death of Eric Garner (click here) the subject surfaced that ATF agents frequently target more minor offenders than the real bad guys that were bypassing tax laws and even bringing in foreign grown product to sell on the underground markets.
Today, the IRS is haunting the Small Businesses that cannot afford the assault. I will remind the USA recovery of 2008 was carried on the backs of Small Businesses and without them President Obama would have been swimming in a collapsed economy for a far longer time.
The big banks were refusing to loan small businesses any monies for expansion or reorganization, so the Small Business Administration was stepped up to fill in the void.
Now, as if small businesses haven't suffered enough they are the 'go to' candidate for draconian IRS practices that syphon off funds and place the businesses in danger.
Small businesses are not al Qaeda or any other terror organization and this HAS TO STOP. It has to stop NOW.
It is so easy for government agencies to victimize those that cannot afford a protracted fight with them. In the case of the IRS it is easy money. Sort of like a traffic ticket threshold any officer has to fill for the municipality they work for. In the case of ATF, it is never having to worry about a confrontation of weapons when arrests are to be made.
I am very concerned government agencies aren't doing their job, except, for low hanging fruit. It is time to end the CRIMES in the USA and not those unable to secure a footing for a fair trial or worse as was realized with Mr. Garner. Either government agencies do their jobs the way the American people expect them to be done and stop living in 'the safe zone' or simply clean house and start again.
October 27, 2014
Today, the IRS is haunting the Small Businesses that cannot afford the assault. I will remind the USA recovery of 2008 was carried on the backs of Small Businesses and without them President Obama would have been swimming in a collapsed economy for a far longer time.
The big banks were refusing to loan small businesses any monies for expansion or reorganization, so the Small Business Administration was stepped up to fill in the void.
Now, as if small businesses haven't suffered enough they are the 'go to' candidate for draconian IRS practices that syphon off funds and place the businesses in danger.
Small businesses are not al Qaeda or any other terror organization and this HAS TO STOP. It has to stop NOW.
It is so easy for government agencies to victimize those that cannot afford a protracted fight with them. In the case of the IRS it is easy money. Sort of like a traffic ticket threshold any officer has to fill for the municipality they work for. In the case of ATF, it is never having to worry about a confrontation of weapons when arrests are to be made.
I am very concerned government agencies aren't doing their job, except, for low hanging fruit. It is time to end the CRIMES in the USA and not those unable to secure a footing for a fair trial or worse as was realized with Mr. Garner. Either government agencies do their jobs the way the American people expect them to be done and stop living in 'the safe zone' or simply clean house and start again.
October 27, 2014
...The New York Times introduces us to Carole Hinders, (click here) an Iowa woman who owns a small, cash-only restaurant. Last year she had her checking account, all $33,000 of it, seized by the IRS. Not because she didn’t pay taxes on her business (she did), and not because she was suspected of any crime (she wasn’t), but because “she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.”
How can the IRS do this when not only no crime has been alleged, but none is suspected? The Times reports:
Using a law designed to catch drug traffickers, racketeers and terrorists by tracking their cash, the government has gone after run-of-the-mill business owners and wage earners without so much as an allegation that they have committed serious crimes. The government can take the money without ever filing a criminal complaint, and the owners are left to prove they are innocent. Many give up.
Hinders is not alone. According to the Institute for Justice, the IRS “made 639 seizures in 2012, up from 114 in 2005. Only one in five was prosecuted as a criminal structuring case.”...
