‘Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required’
October 27, 2014
The headline is from the liberal New York Times.
Mark Steyn and others have criticized the administrative state (such as the IRS) as acting exempt from our normal constitutional due-process rights (such as “innocent until proven guilty”). Columbia law professor Philip Hamburger recently wrote a whole book on the subject, Is Administrative Law Unlawful?, as he explains in brief in last month’s issue of Hillsdale’s Imprimis.
I guess this is the kind of thing they’re talking about. From the New York Times:
Reform the IRS
August 24, 2013
The Tea Party Patriots are asking for donations to run TV ads to educate the public about the IRS abuses. They have an interesting note about word choice:
In the videos, why say “Reform the IRS”? Why not “Abolish”?
The goal is the same. We want to get rid of the current system and replace it with something better. The problem in getting overwhelming public support for it lies in how people interpret what we say.