IRS Steals $62,000 From Farmer’s Bank Account After $10,000+ Deposit

by JASmius



The far from atypical case of Randy Sowers:



A Maryland farmer running his business, making regular deposits - just business as usual, right?  Not according to the IRS, which swooped in, probably armed, and steals his bank account because....why? Making consistent cash deposits on a weekly basis, apparently.  Which, in Obama's America, makes Mr. Sowers a criminal until proven otherwise - an opportunity he will never be provided.

So once again we see Red Barry's department store mannequin, blandly and phonily "apologizing" for this latest in an ongoing series of illegal lootings and pillagings:

Pressured by Congress, the IRS said Wednesday it is changing its policies and apologizing for seizing banks accounts from....law-abiding business owners simply because they structured bank transactions to avoid federal reporting requirements.

Their alleged crime: routinely making bank deposits of less than $10,000. That allowed the business owners to avoid reporting requirements designed to catch drug dealers and money launderers.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress that the IRS is changing policies to prevent the seizures, as long as the money came from legal means.

“To anyone who is not treated fairly under the code, I apologize,” Koskinen told the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee. “Taxpayers have to be comfortable that they will be treated fairly.”

You know the old saying, folks: It's always easier to seek forgiveness than permission.

In some cases, the IRS seized and held bank accounts for years without bringing charges.

And now the illicit practice has finally risen high enough on the public radar to attract some push-back.  And what we got from the Obama IRS is a bland, phony apology from a bland, phony little man whose job description goes no further than that.  And once this furor has blown over, they will go right back to their looting and pillaging, regardless of the law and past "solemn pledges" to the contrary.

Or, in other words, the REST of his job description.

I wonder if Mr. Sowers will get any of his money back, or if it's already been spent?  Probably depends upon the party affiliation on his voter registration.  But at least he got his fifteen minutes of fame.  Pity it had to be so ruinously expensive.