Congratulations, Timothy. Your partisan political spew has earned you a place in my spam filter.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > >>We have only to look > >>at the actions of the IRS in recent years. > >They went after PACs on both side of the aisle, for the same types of > >violations. > > That's correct, Shmuel, though the abuses were disproportionately on one > side since that's the side wealthy donors disproportionately favor. > Moreover, "went after" consisted of sending the organizations inquiry > letters asking them for further information and justification why they > should be entitled to the particular tax status they were seeking. Yes, > that's right, inquiry letters. The letters requested basic information many > of these political organizations couldn't truthfully provide because they > simply weren't entitled to the tax status under the law. > > There are four genuine scandals. The first is that one party in Congress > persecuted IRS officials for doing the jobs that Congress (as a whole) and > the President told them to do: to enforce the U.S. tax code. The second is > that the other party failed to defend the IRS for merely doing its job, so > much so that many people are misinformed about what actually happened and > didn't happen. The third is that one party in Congress has effectively, > unilaterally neutered a particular section of the tax code to satisfy their > own narrow political interests and those of their donors, depriving the > public of the ordinary tax revenues these commercial enterprises should be > paying under the law. The fourth is that many (if not most) of these > enterprises are scamming their donors due to high overheads and grossly > ineffective spending decisions, both not accidental. > > ....I'm not sure what this has to do with mainframes or even I.T., though. > However, I'm all in favor of understanding facts. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
