Wake up in your Right Mind
No protesting at abortion clinics allowed, is the message of IRS agent Sherry Wan to a pro-life group seeking tax exempt status for their non-profit. Ms Wan is heard speaking to Ania Joseph during a phone call recorded in March of 2012.
The audio and transcript is courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom. Click HERE to listen.
Shulman had more White House visits than any Cabinet member | The Daily Caller.
How can we KNOW that the White house directed IRS persecution of right wing organizations? Because it’s Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, visited the White house 157 times during the Obama administration, more than any other member.
He visited 118 times during the two years before the 2012 elections, when the IRS was targeting the conservative non-profits. That’s more than once per week.
Shulman was at the White House far more than any CABINET member. His predecessor, Mark Everson was at the White house ONCE during George W. Bush’s administration.
More fun facts.
The ACLJ is representing 25 Tea Party groups in a suit against the IRS.
At least Five Pro Israel groups critical of White House policies were targeted by the IRS.
From Breitbart, we learn that Lois Lerner signed the IRS letters sent to the TEA Party groups. These letters amounted to an ‘anal probe’ of personal information from TEA party members, which was entirely inappropriate and unneeded for granting tax exempt status to non profit groups of volunteers. She has declared her innocence before congress and invoked the Constitutional Bill of Rights in refusing to offer more testimony.
Lerner is making a deal to preserve her finances and her life. Taking the fifth and refusing to resign from the IRS keeps her in the public eye and helps to ensure that she will not be made to “disappear”.
The current fall guy, Joseph Grant had barely gotten moved into the office before the scandal in the IRS division that handles tax exemptions broke.
MEANWHILE
How Obamacare will be managed:
“At the same time, the IRS is already being presented with a case from a company that claims it stole more than 60 million medical records of more than 10 million Americans.“
This kind of news is rolling out becaue the media can only save Obamacare if it purges the IRS very quickly.
Pharmer hopes that Obamacare fails, and the IRS is replaced by a tiny little agency that collects a flat tax.
Pastors Prepare to Fight IRS Through Pulpit Freedom Sunday | TheBlaze.com.
October 7 is Pulpit Freedom Sunday, in which the Alliance Defending Freedom and numerous other religious organizations are backing this effort.
Many of the pastors send tapes of their sermons to the IRS, attempting to trigger an audit. The IRS has acted against non profits engaging in politically partisan activity before, but generally shy away before the issue goes to court. The agency fears losing the power to suppress speech by losing their case on constitutional 1st amendment grounds.
Knowing that the IRS does not go after Planned Parenthood for its blatant campaign activity for the Democrats, and Cecile Richards current tour of the swing states for Obama, should bolster the courage of any religious groups and churches which would like to engage in free political speech from the pulpit.
Some courageous Catholic Priests have taken on the task of defending the sanctity of life in their sermons. This could be interpreted directly as anti-democrat speech since abortion is firmly entrenched in that party’s platform, and Obamacare includes a death panel, (IPAB). These priests have therefore taken on the IRS, and the current administration itself.
Other members of of United States Catholic Clergy might shy away from giving their own interpretations of scripture as it impinges upon politics, for fear of chasing off their congregations. Some of them subscribe to the idea that it’s OK to vote for a politician who supports killing the unborn, the elderly and the disabled, so long as the candidate promises to redistribute the wealth. This type of confused thinking has morphed from Seamless Garment teaching of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.
Besides Pulpit Freedom Sunday, October is Pro Life Month and the Fall edition of the 40 Days for Life, is underway.
Don’t forget to Defend your Freedom with your VOTE on Nov 6th.
Buffett’s Billion-Dollar Tax Hypocrisy | NetRight Daily.
Warren Buffet recently made the news by suggesting that the rich should pay more taxes, and that he wouldn’t mind paying more.
The problem is that his company is currently attempting to avoid paying taxes to the IRS, and there may be up to a billion dollars of outstanding taxes owed by his company to the IRS, or in dispute.
Berkshire Hathaway struggled for 14 years with the IRS over the dividends received deduction, which was finally settled in the company’s favor in 2005.
For at least 20 years, and probably much longer, Buffett has been struggling to minimize his company’s taxes.
Why is Buffett not able to practice what he preaches?
…as he sends his own GE Imaging Division headquarters to China.
GE moving X-ray business to China – The Boston Globe.
There will be no jobs lost, the flagrant hypocrite says.
What’s the reason to send headquarters to China? To set up future industry there, because it’s too expensive in the U.S. under Immelt’s best friend Obama!!!
GE stockholders in the US need to have a talk with their CEO.
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether – NYTimes.com.
Jeffrey Immelt has a special position as Obama’s Liaison to the Business Community, and as Chairman of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Immelt’s Company, General Electric is numero uno among U.S. corporations in Tax Avoidance. Their net payout on (5 billion in profit) to the IRS is Zero.
The company has managed to balance it’s financial statements of profit from the U.S. and abroad so as to be paying zero U.S. taxes.
These kinds of strategies are out of reach for normal U.S. taxpayers, and of course we are not serving on Obama’s special committees. So we do not have most favored Tax Status. Ronald Reagan had noticed such outsized advantages for large corporations and eliminated many loopholes, while drastically lowering the tax rates for everyone. In succeeding decades the large entities regained much of their preferential tax advantages.
In the last 8 years, GE has reduced US employment by 20 percent and has increased overseas employment. Cumulative overseas profits have increased from $15 billion to $92 billion in that period. Declaring profits in countries with much lower taxes than the U.S. is highly beneficial to the bottom line
Wouldn’t you like to be multinational too?
Pharmer continues the boycott of the US Catholic Bishops fundraisers, and here’s just one more reason.
This appeared in Pharmer’s Church bulletin during October, Pro-life month:
“The Indiana Bishops have asked that parishes and affiliated/associated organizations NOT distribute or allow distribution of Indiana Right To Life’s or county affiliate organization’s election materials.
The Indiana Right to Life has adopted a clearly partisan policy that effectively endorses ONLY Republican candidates for elected offices.
When the Indiana Right to Life Policy and materials are again non-partisan, with a focus on education and advocacy, parishes may be able to cooperate with the local and state organization during the election campaign once more.”
The use of the word “republican” in this announcement violates it’s own supposed non-partisan message. Thus it is internally inconsistent with the supposed spirit the Indiana Bishops are pretending to convey.
The reality is that the bulk of U.S. Bishops (outside of a persistently pro life minority) are paying lip service to pro-life ideals only due to the prodding of the pro-life Pope Benedict.
The Wallbuilders have established three years running that the churches need not fear the IRS removal of tax exempt status. Those preachers doing political advocacy from the pulpits, and sending the tapes to the IRS have yet to be taken to task. The IRS knows that it will lose this case in court, so it keeps silent, allowing the IRS intimidation of most pastors to proceed.
The Catholic Church in the United States ought not to specifically ally itself with any party, but it really needs to get out of bed with the pro-abortion, pro-infanticide, pro-euthanasia, pro-gay marriage, Pro-WAR, pro-slavery, anti-civil rights, Democrat party of the KKK. Those of us who know the history of the U.S. Wars and the above mentioned misbehaviors know which party has initiated and/or supported them in our government.
Any politically conscious person knows that the Republican party is not without stain, and this is why there is a TEA-party for one example. Pharmer has been boycotting the RNC appeals for many years, and assisting individual candidates in other ways.
Pro-life politicians need to find another party, because the Democrat party at the national level has been impervious to transformation on these issues, and defunds its pro-life candidates at the national level. Democrats have moved further left with their chosen president’s inclusion of actual infanticide as an extension of abortion.
Notes:
The Indiana Right to Life Voter Guide has no endorsements included on the document. It has survey questions for federal and state candidates, followed by lists of the candidates (without party affiliation) and their replies to the questions.
Indiana Right to Life has issued a statement that it will back no Democrats this year, due in part to the cooperation of Indiana Democrats with the pro abortion Obamacare. The Democrat state officials have not allowed pro-life legislation to proceed in the Indiana legislature as well. The Indiana Bishops are reminded of Independents, Teapartiers, and Libertarians which are active within the state, and which are not excluded from consideration. It is revealed that the “only republicans” statement appearing in the church bulletin really means “no democrats”.
The 2010 List of Indiana Right to Life PAC endorsements- click HERE
The Democrat Party Platform of 2008 on Abortion:
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.”
“The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to comprehensive affordable family planning services and age-appropriate sex education which empower people to make informed choices and live healthy lives. We also recognize that such health care and education help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions.”
“The Democratic Party also strongly supports a woman’s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre and post natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs.”
Segment from the Glen Beck Show explains the old IRS regulation from the Johnson era which impeded political speech in the churches in exchange for maintaining non profit status. This regulation has no teeth, and hundreds of clergymen are set to prove it again this year. Sept. 26 will mark the third annual PULPIT FREEDOM SUNDAY, says David Barton of Wallbuilders.
It would be pleasing to see the U.S. Catholic Bishops challenge this regulation also.