When we are considered as subjects, Congress acts like a bunch of Mad Hatters and the IRS is a new Gestapo - we have a giant enemy of the people

Totalitarian power and arrogance abounds at every level. It is embarrassing to see it at every level. It has been going on for decades, and C-Span exposed it in part. All you see in government is "talk, talk, talk" (thank you Norma Desmond) from puny little pompous people who would rather ruin anybody just to keep their offices that serve no one and nothing except for themselves! m/r

The Bully Pulpit | National Review Online
MAY 28, 2013 
By Thomas Sowell

We have truly entered the world of  “Alice in Wonderland” when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a congressional subcommittee and denounced on nationwide television for not paying more.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was denounced for contributing to “a worrisome federal deficit,” according to Senator Carl Levin (D., Mich.) – one of the big-spending liberals in Congress who has had a lot more to do with creating that deficit than any private citizen has.

Because of “gimmicks” used by businesses to reduce their taxes, Senator Levin said, “children across the country won’t get early education from Head Start. Needy seniors will go without meals. Fighter jets sit idle on tarmacs because our military lacks the funding to keep pilots trained.”
The federal government already has ample powers to punish people who have broken the tax laws. It does not need additional powers to bully people who haven’t.

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The real danger to us all is when government not only exercises the powers that we have voted to give it, but also exercises additional powers that we never voted to give it. That is when “public servants” become public masters. That is when government itself has stepped over the line.

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