Thursday, February 13, 2014

The IRS is Codifying the Abridgment of Conservative Free Speech Rights



The Anti-Federalist was prophetic in their warnings of an all-powerful, centralized government.  They tried to protect the states and their citizens by demanding a bill of rights.  This singular promise ensured the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

What many of the delegates didn’t see coming was an abdication by future Congresses of their Article One, Section One responsibilities.   The passage of the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act granted bureaucratic entities the ability to implement rules and regulations, along with adjudicating powers.  All are under the oversight of the executive branch.  You’d think that this would be unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court is also complicit in this violation of separation of powers.

Since Congress abdicated their legislative responsibilities to an unelected and unaccountable federal bureaucracy, we are witnessing an outright violation of our First Amendment rights by these entities, two of those tenets being freedom of speech and religion.  Back in 1894, the federal government violated both by using the tax code to silence opposition even though the very first of amendments begins with, Congress shall make no laws regarding…


US churches' federal income tax exemption was not formerly enacted as legislation until the Tariff Act was passed by Congress in 1894, providing tax exemptions to "corporations, companies, or associations organized and conducted solely for charitable, religious, or educational purposes." [51] This was the first time the federal government declared any group exempt from paying taxes, as opposed to its earlier practice of only listing entities subject to taxation. [38] Although the Tariff Act was declared unconstitutional in 1896, the church tax exemption was reinstated by the Revenue Act of 1913, which defined the modern American income tax system. [45] [46] On Jan. 14, 1924, the US Supreme Court interpreted the reason for the exemption in Trinidad v. Sagrada Orden: "Evidently the exemption is made in recognition of the benefit which the public derives" from churches' "corporate activities." [47]


The IRS has been exposed for harassing Tea Party organizations.  Even though there has been an acknowledgement of wrong doing, these modern day oprichniki are codifying the exclusion of conservative organizations from participating in the political process.  And what is Congress doing about this?  Nothing.  After all, Tea Partiers are the bane of both Democrats and the Republican establishment.  Besides, the First Amendment states that Congress shall make no laws abridging freedom of speech.  Nothing is mentioned about unelected bureaucrats violating our God given rights.





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