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• The IRS says it's been getting death threats since the health care bill passed because the IRS is going to be the ones in charge of implementing it. They say the threats people are making to the IRS are so bad, that they are actually hindering the IRS's ability to threaten people.

  Jay Leno

  People, Care, Bills

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• A Democratic congressman said that he worries that the IRS scandal might have a chilling effect on the IRA and that they might be afraid to audit people. So finally some good is coming out of all of this.

  Jay Leno

  People, Worry, Ira

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• Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.

  Patrick Howley

  Party, Political, Tea

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• The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed 'icky.'

  Patrick Howley

  Morning, Block, Government

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• 'The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS's targeting of conservative applicants,' the Oversight report states. 'Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS's targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants.'

  Patrick Howley

  Senior, Should Have, Eight

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• Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Block, Agency, Organization

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• Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Abuse, Notable, Responsible

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• The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Lying, Government, Iron

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• The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Giving, Choices

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• Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

  Frank Luntz

  Voters, Purses, Stolen

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• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  Gail Collins

  Nsa, Uprising, Special

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

  Michael K. Simpson

  House, Regulation, Action

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• The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.

  Dave Barry

  Ideas, Tolls, Information

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• Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS.

  Frank Luntz

  Support, Guarantees, Applause

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• Do you know who will be in charge of health care? The IRS. You thought getting audited was bad? Wait until your next prostate exam.

  Jay Leno

  Waiting, Care, Next

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• No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Drug, Matter

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• Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Home, Night, Men

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• When you come into the world you have nothing... when you leave you have nothing... and in between there's the IRS.

  Bob Thaves

  World

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• Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending.

  Ron Paul

  Income, Spending, Taxes

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• I've enjoyed much success. The IRS is always at my door, constantly.

  KRS-One

  Doors, Enjoyed

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Ideas, Dumb, Trying

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• Is there another way? Of course there is. There is a way based on simple moral principles: Everyone keeps his own money. Everyone decides what to do with his own money. No income tax. No IRS. No government grants or assistance to anyone. All charity is voluntary. It's called freedom. It's a peaceful, harmonious way of life, one that Americans once believed in.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Simple, Government, Peaceful

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• We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

  Sonny Bono

  Bureaucracy, Totalitarianism

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• I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine. He said, "What these other accounting firms have done is very unethical. The [tax avoidance scheme] works best if it's not found out [by the IRS], so we only give it to our best clients, not the rest, so it's unlikely to be discovered. So my firm is better than the others." [Laughter] I'm not kidding. And he was a perfectly nice man. People just follow the crowd...Their mind just drifts off in a ghastly way.

  Charlie Munger

  Laughter, Nice, Men

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• My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A. and trying to be an actor, and their dreams are crushed, and they end up working for the IRS. So they were always protective to the point that they wanted me to have a backup plan, which is understandable, but there was always something inside of me that knew: backup plan, schmackup plan.

  Zachary Levi

  Dream, Horror Stories, People

  RELEVANT magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. April 30, 2003.

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