I was recently contacted by WPR-Wisconsin Public Radio for feedback on what the Tea Party members thought about the IRS targeting them and like minded freedom loving groups. The first thing I told Mike Simonson was that Justice John Marshall put it all in perspective almost 200 years ago in a famous case where he stated, "The power to tax is the power to destroy".
And what destructive powers are truly unleashed when someone decides to use the power of our taxing agency ,the Internal Revenue Service, as their hammer! It is wrong and it is reminiscent of a third world dictatorship. It is a soft tyranny of the most insidious kind. Our elected Congress members, who ultimately hold a much bigger hammer for the cause of good, must bring it down hard to find the source of this travesty if we are ever to repair the public trust that has been lost!
We must never forget what a free society looks like and burn that image deep into our collective psyche. Then each and every day hold our elected and appointed public servants up to that standard if we are ever to remain a free society!
http://news.wpr.org/post/wisconsin-tea-party-members-want-heads-roll-irs
