Wednesday, January 6, 2016
The IRS Scandal, Day 972
Russ Fox (Taxable Talk), 2015 Tax Offender of the Year:
Once more it’s time to award that prestigious award, the 2015 Tax Offender of the Year. The winner of this award must do more than just cheat on his or her taxes. It has to be special; it really needs to be a Bozo-like action or actions. Unfortunately, there were plenty of nominations. ...
Our final runner up was IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. While I applaud the lead he appears to now be taking on identity theft, Commissioner Koskinen’s reaction to the IRS scandal has been ridiculous. I agree with Joe Kristan’s comment earlier this year:
His glib, arrogant and obstructionist response to the Tea Party scandal, full of denials of the existence of information that subsequently surfaced, has destroyed his credibility. There’s no hope that the IRS will get improved funding as long as he is around to spend it.
- The IRS Scandal, Day 971 (Jan. 5, 2016)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 970 (Jan. 4, 2016)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 969 (Jan. 3, 2016)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 968 (Jan. 2, 2016)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 967 (Jan. 1, 2016)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 966 (Dec. 31, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 965 (Dec. 30, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 964 (Dec. 29, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 963 (Dec. 28, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 962 (Dec. 27, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 961 (Dec. 26, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 960 (Dec. 25, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 959 (Dec. 24, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 958 (Dec. 23, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 957 (Dec. 22, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 956 (Dec. 21, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 955 (Dec. 20, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 954 (Dec. 19, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 953 (Dec. 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 952 (Dec. 17, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 951 (Dec. 16, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 950 (Dec. 15, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 949 (Dec. 14, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 948 (Dec. 13, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 947 (Dec. 12, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 946 (Dec. 11, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 945 (Dec. 10, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 944 (Dec. 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 943 (Dec. 8, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 942 (Dec. 7, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 941 (Dec. 6, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 940 (Dec. 5, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 939 (Dec. 4, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 938 (Dec. 3, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 937 (Dec. 2, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 936 (Dec. 1, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 935 (Nov. 30, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 934 (Nov. 29, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 933 (Nov. 28, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 932 (Nov. 27, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 931 (Nov. 26, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 930 (Nov. 25, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 929 (Nov. 24, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 928 (Nov. 23, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 927 (Nov. 22, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 926 (Nov. 21, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 925 (Nov. 20, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 924 (Nov. 19, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 923 (Nov. 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 922 (Nov. 17, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 921 (Nov. 16, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 920 (Nov. 15, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 919 (Nov. 14, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 918 (Nov. 13, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 917 (Nov. 12, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 916 (Nov. 11, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 915 (Nov. 10, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 914 (Nov. 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 913 (Nov. 8, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 912 (Nov. 7, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 911 (Nov. 6, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 910 (Nov. 5, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 909 (Nov. 4, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 908 (Nov. 3, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 907 (Nov. 2, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 906 (Nov. 1, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 905 (Oct. 31, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 904 (Oct. 30, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 903 (Oct. 29, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 902 (Oct. 28, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 901 (Oct. 27, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 801-900 (July 19, 2015 - Oct. 26, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 701-800 (April 10, 2015 - July 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 601-700 (Dec. 31, 2014 - April 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 501-600 (Sept. 22, 2014-Dec. 30, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 401-500 (June 14, 2014 - Sept. 21,2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 301-400 (Mar. 6, 2014 - June 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 201-300 (Nov. 26, 2013 - Mar. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 101-200 (Aug. 18, 2013 - Nov. 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 1-100 (May 10, 2013 - Aug. 17, 2013)
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Comments
Gator: Thousands of lost emails. "Crashed" hard drives. "Lost" backup tapes. This case cries out for a real investigation. The DOJ won't do it so that leaves impeachment.
Posted by: VoteOutIncumbents | Jan 7, 2016 8:28:30 AM
All of this talk of impeachment without any proof of wrongdoing. You people are an embarrassment.
Posted by: gator | Jan 7, 2016 5:59:31 AM
I've been calling for Koskinen's impeachment for years. Boner's Beard would never let it happen.
Posted by: DJ | Jan 6, 2016 12:23:54 PM
Koskinen should be impeached by the House. His trial in the Senate would be a forgone conclusion because the Dems will vote for him. Nevertheless, an impeachment should happen...and probably won't, because the Republicans are gutless. The MSM might get mad at them and Paul Ryan certainly wouldn't want that. Just gutless.
Posted by: VoteOutIncumbents | Jan 6, 2016 8:19:09 AM
Mr. VOI: The emails were lost before Koskinen was appointed; ditto for the hard drive crash. Only the temporarily lost backup tapes happened on Koskinen's watch. I suppose you can waste more money looking for a smoking gun, but I really don't think there is probable cause to suppose that Koskinen ordered that the tapes be lost--or that he had any motive to do so. As for a "real investigation," shall we assume you want another fruitless $70mm or so spent by an "independent" prosecutor? Ken Starr isn't available right now. Who knows, maybe along the way we'd find out Koskinen had an affair with an intern.
Posted by: Publius Novus | Jan 7, 2016 11:10:39 AM