God Bless the Patriot

Posted by Tina

There’s a story out today to warm our patriot hearts as we anticipate Fourth of July celebrations! It serves to remind all of us of our duty to preserve the Republic we were given by acting on our moral outrage. It might require taking a risk and using our free speech right to expose wrongdoing within our government.

Unfortunately there’s also news that will make you see red as you anticipate the expansion of the IRS and the tax code and the jack booted thuggery of the IRS under President Obama and the Reid/Pelosi Congress. Bad news first:

In late 2011 Heritage reported that new IRS agents will be hired to administer new tax regulation and reporting. At the time Bloomberg also anticipated a large increase in IRS hires:

President Barack Obama proposed increasing the budget for the Internal Revenue Service by 9.4 percent to hire more than 5,000 new employees, most of whom would pursue tax cheats.

The president’s fiscal 2012 budget released today sets funding for the tax-collection agency at $13.3 billion, an increase of $1.1 billion from 2010, the last time a full appropriation was made for the IRS.

The timely outrage in today’s patriot story concerns IRS fraud and abuse. The patriot is Howard Antelis, a longtime IRS worker who has simply had enough!

Mr. Antelis: “I’m horrified and ashamed and embarrassed by what I’ve seen. It’s not supposed to be like this. We’re supposed to protect taxpayers, so somebody had to say something.”

Here’s the good news story out of Texas:

A four-month Eyewitness News investigation documented how many illegal immigrants use ITINs to get tax credits and refunds they’re not entitled to. WTHR also exposed how millions of undocumented workers get their ITIN applications approved using phony documents.

The problems identified by 13 Investigates cost American taxpayers billions of dollars every year, according to a 2011 report from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration.

After seeing WTHR’s investigations, Howard contacted 13 Investigates to say the problems inside the ITIN processing center are more serious and systemic than originally reported.

Antelis: “We were being told by upper management to ignore fraud, to assign ITIN numbers and … pay out refunds to people who are lying,” Howard explained. “It’s a license to steal when you allow that.”

The article goes on to report that five other tax examiners spoke to WTHR and backed up Antelis’ claims that managers instructed them to look the other way when they discovered fraud and abuse.

Howard Antelis’ patriotism did not go unrewarded!

The IRS slashed his job performance rating!

The IRS claims every aspect of Howard’s job performance dropped during the past six months, shifting his overall rating from “exceeds fully successful” to “minimally successful.”

Boots on the necks of patriots will not end criticism and scrutiny of our government by freedom loving Americans like Howard Antelis …in fact it will only harden our resolve and strengthen our numbers.