Please, for the sake of whatever is in front of you, don’t be eating or drinking when you read this.
Excerpted from Rudy Takala’s article for the Washington Examiner:
The IRS is struggling to ensure that illegal immigrants are able to illegally use Social Security numbers for legitimate purposes, the agency’s head told senators on Tuesday, without allowing the numbers to be used for “bad” reasons.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made the statement in response to a question from Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., during a session of the Senate Finance Committee about why the IRS appears to be collaborating with taxpayers who file tax returns using fraudulent information.
“What we learned is that … the IRS continues to process tax returns with false W-2 information and issue refunds as if they were routine tax returns, and say that’s not really our job,” Coats said. “We also learned the IRS ignores notifications from the Social Security Administration that a name does not match a Social Security number, and you use your own system to determine whether a number is valid.”
Asked to explain those practices, Koskinen replied, “What happens in these situations is someone is using a Social Security number to get a job, but they’re filing their tax return with their [taxpayer identification number].” What that means, he said, is that “they are undocumented aliens … . They’re paying taxes. It’s in everybody’s interest to have them pay the taxes they owe.”
The head of the IRS – that smug, arrogant obnoxious character who lied to us during the hearings about groups with conservative-sounding names systematically being prevented from getting 501(c)4 status while liberal/left groups had little trouble doing so – now is telling us that “it’s in everybody’s interest” for illegal aliens to use stolen social security numbers…as long as they’re paying taxes?
Try to even begin to imagine what media would do with this if this were a Republican administration and the people involved, once legal (which you can bet is coming) would most likely vote Republican.
Got a reaction in mind? Now look for it over the next couple of days on network news, the network morning shows, the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. and see if you find it.
I talk a lot about media bias in here. The reaction I am virtually certain you will (not) find is why.
