Speaking of the Administrative State…Part (How many? Too many!) - Granite Grok

Speaking of the Administrative State…Part (How many? Too many!)

bureaucracyWe had the EPA and the VA in a recent post – no one in the Obama Administration facing punishment for malfeasance.  You? Me? If we did that here in the private sector, just see how swift our”correction” would happen.  And so, in that same vein, here’s the same thing, IRS version, of “every bureaucrat is sacred” (emphasis mine, reformatted):

SILLY SENATOR. CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE. Hatch wonders about IRS discipline over political scrutiny.

The Senate’s top tax writer asked Tuesday why the IRS has cleared most employees referred for potential improper political scrutiny since the agency’s Tea Party controversy erupted in 2013. Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) noted that Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration had referred 47 employees to the IRS in recent years for potentially breaking the rules for reviewing tax-exempt applications.

The inspector general sent those referrals when it thought an employee’s actions weren’t criminal, leaving any potential punishment up to the IRS. But of those 47 referrals, the IRS found that 20 employees had done nothing wrong, and another five resigned during their investigations.

The IRS found another eight employees could face disciplinary action for future conduct, after the agency found “no clear” evidence of misconduct. Eleven referrals are still pending, while the rest of the 47 are protected by privacy laws. In a Tuesday letter, Hatch asked for more details about how the IRS investigates those referrals and about any role the National Treasury Employees Union plays in those inquiries.

Ah yes, the pompous privacy laws protecting the last 4 – certainly, and “privacy and concern” for the taxpayers that have been wronged during this IRS targeting people just for their political speech for the IRS employees political ideology.   This was a practical application of “Conservatives think Liberals are simply misguided; Liberals think Conservatives are EVIL”.  And one must obviously send Evil to their version of Hell – which in political terms means silence.  Absolute silence.  A dearth of verbalization capability.

After all, the one thing I have learned is that political people not only speak (all forms of such), they want speak even more. Ideas have to be expressed, thoughts talked about, arguments honed, convincing to be done. So what can be worse than not being able to do that?

And having the ability to make that happen – joy must have coursed through their fascist arteries and veins from the sheer sense of “*I* can control others – especially if they are EVIL.”  No, no freedom of expression, no willingness to enter the arena of ideas.  Nope, none at all.

As Achmed the Dead Terrorist says: SILENCE!  I KEELLL YOU!

And that is what IRS employees did – they silenced those that opposed them and in some cases, killed them politically.

And have been rewarded by becoming Public Masters, determining who has the Right to Political Speech and who did not, rather than just being what they were employed to be – public servants.  Those who serve – should they be Overlords of their own decree?

Or is it that Equality before the Law is now just a scoffing (and scofflaw) notion?

(H/T: Instapundit)

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