Rights schmights. The Internal Revenue Service can do whatever it wants. As if the threat of a tax audit weren’t intimidating enough, the IRS can seize your property without ever charging you with violating the law. Having these people in charge of your healthcare is going to be awesome
@iowahawkblog Still don't understand how this is not a violation of the Fifth Amendment.
— Bryan Coughlin (@BPCoughlin) October 26, 2014
The ongoing evil of asset forfeiture: IRS seizes life savings of Iowa cash-only restaurateur http://t.co/OIjPq0UNur
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 26, 2014
The IRS seizing someone’s life savings? Surely this person was charged with some sort of crime, right?
Nope.
https://twitter.com/FinanceTX/status/526359691312775170
The IRS: the customer service of the DMV, the efficiency of the Post Office, and the ruthlessness of the Mafia.
Asset forfeiture: a law to combat criminal gangs enforced by a criminal gang #EndTheIRS http://t.co/sTbkqArIKa
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/coshoct/status/526360103516381186
You know an instance of federal tyranny is pretty bad if The New York Times is being critical of it.
Using a law designed to catch drug traffickers, racketeers and terrorists by tracking their cash, the government has gone after run-of-the-mill business owners and wage earners without so much as an allegation that they have committed serious crimes. The government can take the money without ever filing a criminal complaint, and the owners are left to prove they are innocent. Many give up.
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Whoa.
The practice has swept up dairy farmers in Maryland, an Army sergeant in Virginia saving for his children’s college education and Ms. Hinders, 67, who has borrowed money, strained her credit cards and taken out a second mortgage to keep her restaurant going.
Their money was seized under an increasingly controversial area of law known as civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement agents to take property they suspect of being tied to crime even if no criminal charges are filed. Law enforcement agencies get to keep a share of whatever is forfeited. (emphasis added)
So basically law enforcement agencies are rewarded for seizing the property of people who have committed no crime.
@iowahawkblog And of course to fight it, you must have millions in attorneys fees.
— Major Victor Bravo❌ (@Conservatexian) October 26, 2014
Run a cash-only business? The IRS can seize anything and everything you own, because you're obviously a drug dealer. Prove otherwise.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 26, 2014
@iowahawkblog Or an ice cream dealer. #Tomato #Tomahto
— George (@NJSpeechGuy) October 26, 2014
@iowahawkblog – Of course the strippers & hookers of DC will be immune to this.
"I know Desire well. She's good" – DC politician
— Smittie™ GED (Hons), BS (D-) (@smittie61984) October 26, 2014
@iowahawkblog How DARE they use #legaltender?!
— BigDadio (@BigDadios) October 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/Enginerd2004/status/526360403245535232
https://twitter.com/coshoct/status/526361391838789633
When the government can arbitrarily seize your property, your 1st Amendment rights are effectively meaningless. #AssetForfeiture
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/gilla5490/status/526369116308144128
Heads they win; tails you lose.
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