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The Patriot Post Digest 4-18-2016
From The Federalist Patriot
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In other words, as long as the money is coming in, the ends justify the means.
Except that it’s not just coming in. As Coates noted, the IRS is also issuing refunds. What he didn’t say is billions of dollars in refunds have been going to millions of illegals. In a bombshell report17 published in 2013 by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), author David North revealed the Treasury sent a whopping $4.2 billion to illegals using the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) as its vehicle for doing so.
Congress was initially to blame for this debacle because it failed to mandate that ACTC benefits, like Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC), only be granted to people with valid Social Security Numbers (SSNs). Instead, as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Congress determined that no federal “grant or benefit” could be given to illegals — even as they failed to define the terms. Subsequently, the decision as to what those terms meant became one for the executive branch of government to make.
The IRS made the determination.
It gets worse. 1996 was the same year the U.S. Treasury introduced18 the Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN), a nine-digit tax-processing number assigned by the IRS to individuals who are obligated to file a federal tax return, but who lack, or are ineligible, for a SSN typically required to file taxes. ITIN numbers can only be issued to those who submit a Form W-7, along with documents that establish both the identity and the foreign status of the individual. Prior to their validation, an IRS fraud unit in Austin, Texas, is supposed to examine them. Yet the IRS farmed the work out to other units with far less vigorous standards that became even less rigorous when an applicant decided to obtain ITINs for his children, nieces and nephews.
The IRS instituted some reforms to cut down on the abuse, but as Koskinen makes abundantly clear, his agency still maintains a rather tenuous relationship with Rule of Law. In fact last month, the IRS defended19 its decision to allow illegal aliens to claim as many as three years of refunds on income — even if they never paid income taxes.
Part of the IRS’s machinations are linked to Barack Obama’s attempt to reward as many as four million illegals with amnesty, and provide them with tentative legal status that includes issuing Social Security numbers.
SSNs that can then be used to get tax refunds.
Koskinen was never asked to explain why his agency would abide the use of fraudulent SSNs, despite a massive hack of its system in 201520. One it slow-walked to the public, initially admitting that more than 100,000 taxpayer accounts had been compromised, before raising the total 334,000 last August, and again adding another 390,000 accounts to the total in February, boosting the final number of compromised accounts to more than 700,000.
This combination of incompetence and deviousness goes a long way toward explaining why last Thursday Judge David B. Sentelle of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals castigated21 the IRS for its treatment of conservative groups, noting that he and his colleagues are still trying to determine whether these groups are being targeted for illegal scrutiny22. He was equally skeptical regarding the IRS’s insistence that it had instituted credible reforms, stating, “It’s hard to find the IRS to be an agency we can trust.”
Indeed, according to Koskinen, IRS “management” now abides the use of fraud. The very same fraud they would hammer any American taxpayer for engaging in. Congress has threatened to impeach Koskinen. Maybe it’s time they got around to actually doing it.
**Editor’s Note: Today is also finally Income Redistribution Day23, so make sure and file for your “fair share.”
MORE ORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE
ANALYSIS: Cruz’s Art of the Delegate24
FCC Chair Wants to Be Able to Regulate Internet Rates25
Teacher Unions Handed Victory at Students' Expense26
Pushing the Boundaries of Political Correctness27
White Privilege Conference Wants Less Responsibility, Accountability28
TOP HEADLINES
Democrat AGs, Alarmist Groups Colluded on Prosecuting Dissenters29
Brazil’s Lower House Votes to Impeach President Rousseff30
OPEC Fails to Reach Agreement on Freezing Oil Production31
For more, visit Patriot Headline Report32
OPINION IN BRIEF
Jeff Jacoby: “Even now, Obama cannot see that a doctrine premised on avoiding American involvement in the world’s conflicts is bound to fail. A policy built around US disengagement only intensifies global disorder. The president concedes that he should have had a better ‘day-after’ plan in Libya — but still maintains that the calamity his approach caused shows he was right all along. In [Jeffrey] Goldberg’s words, ‘Libya proved to [Obama] that the Middle East was best avoided.’ It reinforced his subsequent decision to do nothing about Syria. He has no regrets about abandoning his red line — he says now that he is ‘very proud’ he decided not to stop Assad’s horror show. To this day, Obama has not altered the mindset he started with: that American power cannot fix what ails the planet’s bad neighborhoods, and is likely to make them worse. But Obama’s foreign-policy stewardship teaches a very different lesson. Since 2009, America’s credibility has been badly eroded and the world has become far more dangerous and unstable. The price of American retreat has been terrible, made all the worse by a president too rigid to change his mind.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Upright: “Some say they only want to shake things up. Others would go further and blow them up — from Occupy Wall Street to certain pockets of the Trump campaign, Americans in recent years have been flirting with old-time Russian nihilism in modern dress. They don’t want to master chess, they want to grab the board and fling it. It’s a shame, because 2016 is a game that we — Republicans, conservatives, and everyone who only wishes that Hillary Clinton would go back to Chappaqua and leave us alone — can win.” —Nicholas Frankovich
Non Compos Mentis: “We will ultimately change the [gun] laws of our country to protect ordinary citizens who are part of this wave of violence.” —Sen. Ed Markey
The BIG Lie: “Of course I never endangered national security. That’s absolutely false.” —Hillary Clinton
Empty bluster: “It’s unprofessional and under the rules of engagement that could have been a shot down, so people need to understand that this is serious business and the United States is not going to be intimidated in high seas. We respect our freedom of navigation … and we are communicating to the Russians how dangerous this is.” —Secretary of State John Kerry on the Russian jet that buzzed a U.S. destroyer33
Alpha Jackass: “I don’t want to play the rule game, because I’ll tell you what, we live in a democracy and it’s all about getting the bosses out. The bosses are picking. Now I’m winning, you will say. I’m wining by 200 delegates. I’m winning, more importantly in my opinion, I’m winning by 2 million votes. In other words I’ve gotten more than 2 million votes.” —Donald Trump
And last… “Of Bernie Sanders' $205,000 income, he gave only 4% to charity. Where he’s really generous is when he gives other peoples' money away.” —Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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