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    Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 8 months ago
    One more card in the house of cards just got yanked out, but the Republicans are chiseling away at the IRS scandal instead of using a wrecking ball.
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      Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 8 months ago
      In order to use the wrecking ball, they'd have to have a Department of Justice who was actually interested in Justice. They'd have to have an IRS who was more interested in serving the people than in protecting a cover-up. There would have to exist more Trey Gowdy's and fewer John Boehners. There would have to be a media cry and hue for the immediate prosecution of Lerner et al like there was for Watergate and the prosecution of "Scooter" Libby. Lastly, you'd have to have a critical mass of the populace who wasn't rooting for the active subversion of the Constitution as a whole.

      While using the wrecking ball would be nice, there are a lot of links in the chain that would have to be reformed first to hang it from.
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      Posted by Solver 9 years, 8 months ago
      If you were a police officer that had a drug dealer neighbor that was a good friend and gave you quite a bit of money every year and you were progressively ethical, would you turn the drug dealer in?

      Would the justice department do such to a corrupt and progressively ethical IRS?
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        Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 8 months ago
        Two words turned that case you put forward into nonsense for me.

        "Progressively Ethical"
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          Posted by Solver 9 years, 8 months ago
          I consider a theft system where the more you produce, the higher the percentage you are forced pay to those who don't, is progressively ethical, which is not only unethical but destructively unethical.
          They don't call it a progressive tax for nothing.
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            Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 8 months ago
            I understand what you meant, I just can't wrap my mind around that term.

            Seems like it should be on the top 10 list of Oxymorons to me
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              Posted by Solver 9 years, 8 months ago
              Good one! The word, "Progressive" has been mutated into an anti-concept. It shouldn't also mean, “A person of a collective group that believes it can tear down those who produce while doling out rubble to those who don't.” But it does.
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      Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 8 months ago
      A wrecking ball approach would require far more spine than the pack of them has ever demonstrated possessing.
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        Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 8 months ago
        I would settle for jackhammering at the house of cards, but chiseling isn't fast enough. To get the wrecking ball approach will be up to us.
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          Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 8 months ago
          The problem is with the career political class.

          Their focus is maintaining their career, rather than the good of the country or even their constituents.

          They will only ever do the minimum they can get away with to buy, bribe, or steal their way to their next term, plus a few things to get some good press.

          Beyond that....NOTHING.

          They are too busy grabbing and maintaining power for themselves and associating with the other "political elite".

          Its that "Inside the Beltway Madness" that infects them all after a period of time that varies from one to another but all have their limits.

          Makes you want to scream :P
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            Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 8 months ago
            You made the best argument for a term limits amendment, but it won't happen for all the reasons you listed.
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              Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 8 months ago
              Indeed....

              Those that most benefit from a system are never interested in real reform to the system.

              The consequence (intended or unintended is up for debate) of turning us from a democratic republic to a representative democracy is that the most important check and balance, the people, were effectively neutered.

              A mob can never take sustained reasoned action, it is by its very nature, chaotic.
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