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Students draw guns in a mock IRS arrest of a 'tax cheat'.

It's about that time again... Snowfall and snow mounds are finally receding in the northern states and spring is creeping its way forward: The birds are singing, the squirrels are at play, and the IRS is excitedly looking forward to bending you over and giving it to you good and hard!

These are their stories:

Story 1: Identity Theft Leads To Tax Fraud Nightmare For Couple:
http://www.whas11.com/news/local/stories/whas11_localnews_090331_TaxFrau...

From the Article:

""Innocently, I was looking for a job, like I've done every day for the last four months," explains Steve Spann.

He says he's entered every bit of his personal information on career search web sites on his home computer.

But on March 24th, his computer caught a virus, and on the 25th every computer in the house froze

By the 26th, Connie Spann says, "Someone stole his identity, his social security number, his birth date, his name, and pretended like they were him and filed a return to the IRS."

She found out because when she went to file their joint tax return on the 27th, the IRS said Steve had already filed! "

"Connie, the wife, works at Liberty Tax filing people's taxes. She never thought someone would steal her husband's identity and file his taxes for him."

'Liberty Tax'? IRONY!!!

"The identity thief was "self employed," made up an income, and claimed the first time homebuyers' credit. The thief was set to get a $6000 refund.

But that's not all. The thief also tapped into their bank accounts and credit cards.

Steve will have to paper file his return and include a police report."

This situation could have been ENTIRELY avoided if the IRS and the income tax were simply abolished. Now criminals are incentivized into filing taxes on behalf of others to grab a tax credit. Bravo, government!!!

Story 2: IRS Recruiting College Students To Become Special Gun-Toting Agents!!!
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/12384...

From The Article:

"Berea-Federal agents took over a portion of Baldwin-Wallace College's Strosacker Hall on Monday, setting up a surveillance camera and conducting undercover investigations.

It wasn't the latest covert action in the local corruption probe, just a little mock recruiting fun courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service."

When I think of the IRS, I think of FUN... Don't you???

"Special agents aren't always pretending to be someone else. They can be the ones staking out the entrance to a building or raking through trash for evidence of laundered drug money. They carry guns and have arrest powers."

"What's the biggest misconception about the job?

"Probably that we audit tax returns," said Gary Gruver, who heads the criminal investigation branch of the IRS in Akron.

Gruver helped the students conduct a mock investigation of a crooked tax preparer as part of the event.

"As an undercover agent, you want to basically adopt a role that you don't know anything about taxes," Gruver said."

"Ropp, for one, thinks it's an exciting job option.

"It's like you're James Bond or something," said Ropp, a 6-foot-7, 300-pound redhead. "You're undercover. You're getting the bad guys."

Plus, it's a great training ground."

Because destroying people's lives and productivity is exciting and frankly downright awesome! Can you feel the power!?

"Special agents need a four-year degree and at least 15 semester hours of accounting. Starting salary for an average 50-hour work week, which includes 10 hours of unscheduled overtime, is $47,000. Those with a 3.0 grade-point average or better start at $54,000.

And applicants with a master's degree can start off at $61,000.

There is one restriction. You can't be over 36 when you apply. And history shows that for every 130 applications received, only one is accepted, Rasoletti said, and that's in good economic times.

But if you don't succeed the first time, and really want the job, don't give up, he advised. "Sooner or later, you'll come to the top of the pile.""

Why yes, turds do tend to rise to the surface.

Story 3: More IRS Recruitment Propaganda At Pittsburg State University
http://www.koamtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10086199

From the Article:

The most hilarious part is at the bottom of the article:

"A growing job market

The Adrian Project is named after Adrian College in Chicago, where the program started in 2000, and organizers say the job market for IRS jobs is growing."

The IRS has a growing job market?? Where does the demand for this market come from????

"PSU senior Kyle Spechinger is a justice studies major and told us he had looked up the Adrian Project, but did not expect how involved it would be.

"I really am having fun," he said.  "I'm strapped up with a fake gun right now."

"When you are a little kid, you want to be a cop of a fireman and it's something I've always wanted to do - be a cop," Speichinger said.  "But then I got into college and there's a lot more than being a cop, and you get to use your mind more then your braun.""

Kyle is a college student?? Reminds me of an elementar school discussion on the nature of power.

"From the oath to the arrest

The students took an oath, and were fitted with the Adrian Project's version of a badge and a fake gun.

Then they start from square one, interviewing and interrogating mock suspects of tax evasion.

They investigated accounts where a tax return preparer may try to hide income, whether legally or illegally."

Let's mold people into state-serving drones and see how far we can push them. Let's give them guns and 'authority'. Milgram Experiment anyone?? Be sure to check out the photographs in the article!!!

""It's kind of like a puzzle and that's what's real fun to me," said PSU senior Kyle Spechinger.  "You have to put a lot of pieces together before you can come up with your answer.  It's cat and mouse."

Then they did felony car stops, and used hand cuffs when making the arrest."

Morbid.

That's all for now. Until next time...

Vigilia Pretium Libertatis!

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