J. Christian Adams (Former Justice Department attorney) on government's latest method of legalized theft: taking money from children if parents owed it.
So let's add this up: The feds are stealing money from people who don't owe it because an ancestor might have been overpaid on some benefit or other, which the feds cannot prove; there's not the slightest level or degree of accountability or transparency from the feds over their illegal actions; and if you resist, they will squash you with extreme prejudice. And over comparatively de minimus amounts to boot.
Petty tyranny, gentles, but tyranny nonetheless. And yet a tyranny that We, The People, are, in practical terms, powerless to resist precisely because of the economic incentives involved - i.e. the amounts being stolen by the IRS are far less than the costs in legal fees of trying to get them back. It's all well and good to speak of the principle of the thing, but if the feds have taken $350, does it make sense to spend ten grand fighting them on it? In this depressed economy? Don't think the Regime isn't aware of these incentives, either.
Seems to me like a ready-made case for a class-action suit.
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