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There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives from fear, anger, or a sense of personal injury. The particular thing that conservatives, particularly the Republican-libertarian conservatives, loathe more than Americas most dangerous enemies is the government and its various agencies; especially those tasked with enforcing laws and regulations. The two men who wield ultimate control over the conservative movement and own the Republican Congress, Charles and David Koch, certainly hate the government, but they have particular antipathy for two agencies they believe are despotic and illegal simply because they exist and are not under Koch brother control.
The Koch brothers have made no secret that they want the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency eliminated from existence and have spared no expense to thwart the activities of the EPA. Now they will have an even greater reason to hate the Internal Revenue Service because due to a devious, and illegal, Koch plot to affect legislation neutering enforcement power of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Internal Revenue Service is beginning an investigation into an illegal Koch tax deduction. The illegal tax write-off is for payment to a scientist for phony reports absolving the fossil fuel industry of any responsibility for anthropogenic climate change.
The IRS has received several complaints from the environmental group Greenpeace demanding it investigate the secret relationship between the Koch brothers and a well-known climate denying scientist with questionable scientific credentials, The so-called scientist, Dr. Willie Soon, received over $1,6 million to create phony reports claiming climate change is not only non-existent, but that if it does exist there is no relationship to carbon emissions related to fossil fuels.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/26/irs-begins-investigating-koch-brothers-illegal-tax-deductions-denying-climate-change.html
Could this be the Kochtopus' Capone moment? Please, God, do America a favor and bring down these overprivileged criminals.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Nothing will be done, unless you are the normal middle class income peon like the rest of us and then then IRS will come after you for a small mistake.
Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Karma for the Chameleon
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Send Karl Rove and Scott Walker with them!
NBachers
(17,136 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,158 posts)meow2u3
(24,772 posts)UTUSN
(70,740 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)I only wonder how many layers of plausible denial exist between the Boys and the paperwork.
azureblue
(2,150 posts)to bring down Al Capone.