It’s perverse: If an ordinary citizen makes a typo on his 1040EZ, he could be on the hook for untold sums of money, fines, even jail time. When the IRS abuses its power to harass political enemies, nothing happens. An employer entered the wrong Social Security and the error took months of telephone calls and mail to fix, a period of time over which was threatened with all sorts of nasty consequences by the Social Security Administration and the IRS. But when the Social Security Administration oversees the payment of millions of dollars in benefits to Nazi war criminals summering on Croatian beaches, nothing happens. If you’re an ordinary schmo, a typo can land you in jail. If you work for the government, you can burn the face off a baby and walk. Even in medieval times, the distinction between lords and serfs was not so pronounced. -- Kevin D. Williamson
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:57:56 +0000
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