Obama Vs. Nixon
Joe Escalante ·
Jul 8, 2010 at 5:14pm
What is the difference between using the Justice Department purely to make political gains with a particular constituency (by urging a lawsuit against a state that was going to find its way to the courts anyway), and using the I.R.S. to soften up your enemies list?
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Jun '10
Re: Obama Vs. Nixon
Speaking of the IRS, Glenn Beck said (on his radio show) that he gets audited every year now--something that never happened before. Completely unrelated to his show topics, I'm sure. By the way, I read somewhere that the "Nixon Enemies List," that everyone was so proud to be on, was really just a list of people that were to get no special favors from the White House, no Christmas cards, no event invitations. So, unless your feelings were easily hurt, there were really no nasty consequences to being on "The List." In fact, I think if Nixon considered you a serious enemy, you wouldn't need a leaked list to know about it. You'd know.
Re: Obama Vs. Nixon
Myths debunked. I like it. I can't imagine being audited every year. I can't imagine doing a TV show and a radio show in the same day. Beck is a machine.
May '10
Re: Obama Vs. Nixon
We were audited last year. The IRS agent was a complete caricature of what you would imagine he should look like and speak like. He even folded his hands when he spoke to me. Our tax return was accurate, but I couldn't produce every receipt from finishing our lower level in 2003, so instead of using the amount of our construction loan he guesstimated a lower value and then told me I could write him a check for $5,000 in the next three minutes and he would close my file...or, he would have to go back and submit his findings to the bureaucratic chain and they may increase the amount we would owe and audit other years. I could then dispute it or pay it. Well, Mr. Mafia...I mean IRS agent let me consider my choices while I grab my checkbook.