Libertarian Party: Don’t investigate the IRS, abolish it!

Posted by Steve Adcock

As politicians in Washington D.C. scramble to take best advantage of the IRS debacle over targeting conservative and Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny, the Libertarian Party has upped the ante and is calling for the elimination of the Internal Revenue Service altogether. Forget the investigation…just get rid of it.

“We must abolish the IRS and end any need for a regulatory agency that snoops into people’s private lives,” said Libertarian party Executive Director Carla Howell. She added that our federal government needs far fewer resources to address their constitutionally-authorized obligations. ”We don’t need an income tax, and we certainly don’t need the IRS,” Howell added.

If elimination were to be discussed, now would be the time. Officials within the IRS refuse to admit what they know and when they knew it. It is more clear than ever that corruption exists in all levels of government, and the IRS is quickly turning into a prime example of how rampant uncontrolled power and unaccountable government employees really are within our federal bureaucracy. How much more evidence do Americans need before they stand up for their own rights and call for an end to one of the more historically corrupt entities of the federal government?

Once again, the Libertarian Party is the only party calling for an end to political corruption. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have called for the elimination of the IRS, opting instead to maintain the abuse of so many American’s tax dollars and an insanely complex and punitive system of taxation.

“Individuals, businesses, and political organizations will all be safe from government interrogation and free to express their political views. It will dramatically increase the wealth of the private sector and inspire hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in small businesses and American jobs,” Howell said.

I was a Libertarian before it was cool

Posted by Steve Adcock

This is the Libertarian Party’s moment to shine. Corruption has reached an all-time high in Washington D.C. and the American people are rightly becoming more and more suspect of their elected government officials. From the Benghazi cover-up to the IRS scandal, from gun running (Fast and Furious) to the Associated Press privacy fiasco, the government is clearly out of control and the evidence is in plain sight.

This is nothing new. This is what governments do when the people grant them virtually unchecked power. Why does it take public scandal before Americans finally wake up to what’s been going on under their noses for decades?

And the people of our nation, once again, are left footing the bill. The American people have a reason to start looking elsewhere for their political leadership – as they always have. Will this mean the majority of Republicans and Democrats will jump ship to the Libertarians? Of course not. And honestly, they don’t need to. The Libertarian movement has always been around and always will be. We are willing to accept anyone to the side of freedom and liberty.

But if Americans truly want change in their country, it is imperative that they finally stop believing that it is their job to vote for the lesser of two evils because, as all Americans plainly see, evil is still evil however you slice it. Your party affiliation does not matter as much as your votes do. Vote for freedom and start experiencing everything that this great nation has to offer. Or, continuing vote for evil, and our government will forever remain…evil.

I am a damn proud Libertarian. I am a Libertarian because I have two eyes, both in working order. I cringe when I look at my paycheck every two weeks and see the money being confiscated from me. I see our government’s never-ending drive to disarm the American people and throw away parts of the Constitution. I see the federal government running up deficits and asking Americans to cut back and spend responsibly even when our own politicians would never dream of using the same philosophy with our money at the national level.

Benghazi made it cool again to be a Libertarian, but it should not take major public scandals to wake the population up to the systematic failures of their own government. It should not take the loss of freedom before Americans begin to love freedom. But it does.

Improper controls cause hundreds of millions in payments

Posted by Steve Adcock

According to public numbers, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid paid more than $125 million for treatment of thousands of our nation’s prison inmates and illegal aliens between the years 2009 and 2011, a cost that could have been prevented if proper controls were in place.

“The federal government is generally prohibited from providing Medicare services to incarcerated individuals or aliens who are unlawfully present in the country under the Social Security Act,” reported the Washington Free Beacon. ”But CMS’s screening methods were not able to detect and recoup payments that violated the Act.”

Had the controls been in place, much of the improper payments could have been prevented. Instead, government bureaucracy fails again, costing the American taxpayer millions.

According to the Free Beacon report, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid launched a nearly $80 million plan to improve their computer systems. The center claims the new system saved over $100 million in 2012 alone.

Sorry, but I cannot simply “get over” the destruction of my country

Posted by Steve Adcock

I am naturally drawn to bumper stickers. Crowded or empty streets, day or night, I always seem to pick out and read the contents of bumper stickers on the backs of cars, and I have read some pretty interesting points of view plastered on bumpers. But today, I read something downright disturbing: “He Won, Get Over It”.

What part should I get over, exactly? Should I get over the fact that our president, wholehearted embraced by Communist Party USA, has put into place a systematic agenda of consolidated power and control into the hands of career politicians practically falling over themselves to spend the people’s money – and demonstrably lie, cheat and steal to do it?

Or, perhaps you would like me to get over the destruction of personal sovereignty at the hands of an expensive and perpetually wasteful government-run health care program and regulatory mess (Obamacare, of course)? Maybe you would like me to get over government control over the course of business, the independent choices of the American people, over Barack Obama’s unmistakable disdain of freedom and liberty, of the most basic human rights that has stood as the fabric of this nation for centuries?

Okay, it might not be that. Instead, maybe I should simply move on and get over the transparent cover-up of the Benghazi disaster and the death of innocent Americans in the region as this government purposely turned a blind eye. Perhaps Americans should do to our government what Obama did to military leaders and an ambassador in the region during the attack: ignore them, pretend nothing is happening, and just get over it. What is done is done. It is over.

Oh, it’s over alright. Worse, our president has no intention of hiding his dangerous agenda, but still, Americans gave this man another chance. Another chance for what? Maybe too many people ended up with an “Obama phone”.

I will not get over the destruction of American civilization as we know it at the hands of an unaccountable president and political class. I will not get over the entrenchment of a recklessly corrupt government superstructure and the elimination of virtually any limit to government control over more and more of the lives of the American people.

No Constitution, no amount of legal restraint or the rule of law, will stand in the way of this administration and the goals of centralization of money, power and control in Washington D.C.

No, Mr. or Mrs. slave of the state. I will not “get over it”.