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A grade school civics student knows the IRS must be apolitical. To do otherwise is a criminal act.

We learn that dozens, if not hundreds of IRS employees willfully conducted illegal activities harassing opponents of Obama.Not a single IRS employee saw fit to question those illegal activities. Now comes the criminal phase with potential 10 year prison terms. Watch as all those canaries who couldn’t sing find their voices.

Under ObamaCare this same IRS will have access to your medical records.

Obama was shocked to hear what the IRS was up to with this illegal and shocking behavior. So we are temporarily left to believe someone in the IRS woke up one day and said it’s time to put the screws to anti-Obama organizations so they can’t raise money for Romney. Then hundreds of fellow agents jumped on that notion and made it happen.

When the criminal investigation starts and the canaries begin singing, how high will it go? I’m guessing pretty high. Will the head of the IRS take the bullet? Or will 10 years in the slammer push it higher?

Am I living in the former Soviet Union, or am I on the set of a Stooges film? Is this a government ready to lie to the public about anything? Or, is this just incompetents in action. Either way, it makes one uncomfortable. Should I prepare for my IRS audit?

Forget Washington, look at your local city hall. Local bureaucrats work daily to make everything more complex for one reason only. To create more local government jobs.

I submitted a permit request to replace a fence. This is the third replacement for this fence in the 34 years we have lived in this house. I took two copies of a property plot and the proposal from the fence company to city hall. The young man told me there were new rules for a six foot fence and he wasn’t sure it would be approved. But, he drew the lines on the plot plans and said they would get back to me that day. Three working days later I called. The lady who answered said the young man had drawn the lines on the plot plan in the wrong place. I would need to come down and redraw the one line. I went back and watched while she redrew the line. She gave me the permit with two pages of instructions and requirements. Contractor can work only between the hours of thus and so, materials can only be placed on thus and so, etc, etc.  This is for a fence replacement, mind you. I told my wife it’s no wonder most people just skip the permit crap and replace the fence. If they had denied me a permit for any reason, I would have just had the fence replaced section by section over the summer.

I  have a major renovation going on in Arizona. Well, trying to go on. The architect is in with the plans for the fourth interaction. Each time a new question arises and a new calculation is requested. Someone told him I may need to submit an updated title insurance policy. Eventually we will get the permit. But, in a staff in a building department that once handled twenty times the permits they now handle, they have a lot of time on their hands. You see, they never cut back when the work stopped.

It’s all about jobs. Jobs in building departments that should have gone away when the building stopped, but didn’t.

Who pays the price. The citizens who pay the freight for those who struggle to find busy work and choose to use that time to delay work that creates jobs in the private sector.

It’s no different on Main Street than it is in Washington. The more government jobs you have leads to less work getting done in the private sector, hence fewer jobs and a poorer economy. Want to see more jobs in the private sector, double down on the Sequestration and watch. Liberty and freedom are the greatest job creators.

When Obama and the Democrats reduce payroll taxes it’s to stimulate the economy. People have more money in their pockets, they spend it, and it creates jobs.

When Obama and the Democrats see an opportunity to raise taxes they seem to develop amnesia about the aforementioned economic stimulation. They demonstrated that this week. The Senate passed a bill to put sales taxes on Internet sales. This will give states approximately $11 billion in new tax revenue from $200 billion in sales. Free money. A gift from above, so to speak. Washington gives to the lowly states to help fund the costs Washington has put on the lowly states, like ObamaCare. You know the old saw, one hand washes the other. Or, let them dip their beak.

Here’s where the logic of this defies me. Why is this different than the payroll tax reduction and why do Democrats like one and don’t like the other. Taxing Internet sales takes money out of the economy, less sales get made, and fewer jobs get created. The exact opposite of the payroll tax reduction. Certainly not everyone making purchases on the Internet is rich, so that’s not the reason. I’m just speculating here, but I think it could be the blessed ignorance of my fellow Americans. Sorry, but I will try to explain.

If you put money in a person’s paycheck, it’s noticed. If you add money to a person’s Internet purchase, it is not likely to be seen. If you accept this, then it might lead to this.

Democrats don’t care about the impact of any action to grow government at any level, they just want to hide any penalties and advertise any benefits.

Getting money to grow government is a skill. Spending that money requires no skill. It’s not like a business when options to spend money within a company compete based on strategy and payoff. In government spending money is based on the value of the votes it might garner regardless of the impact on economy.

So, government is better  than business when it comes to raising money. Business has to demonstrate success to get investment cash. Government has to hide the pain that more revenue will create. Business is better than government when it comes to investing money raised. Once again, they must invest where the greatest opportunity lies. Government invests where the most votes lie.

Business has kept this country great. Government is destroying this country. Can you see why?