Yesterday a website called Tea Party Command Center Blogger Spot posted a story about a veteran‘s recent encounter with the IRS.
The veteran whose story is told in the article is on disability due to wounds suffered in Iraq. He was checking his bank account to make sure his disability check had been deposited when he found out that his bank account had been placed on ‘hold.’
This is his story:
I called my bank and was informed that the IRS had sent a letter demanding that the bank take all of the available funds out of my account on the first day of the month and then wire them to them. The bank gave me a telephone number at which to call the IRS. After being placed on hold for a very long time- long as in a biblical age- I finally spoke with an agent.
Long story short; they claim I made $157,000 in 2010 and that I owe them tons of money, and that until I pay it, a lien will remain on my personal bank account.
At the beginning of 2010, I was still in the hospital recovering from injuries I’d sustained while serving in Iraq. I was released early in the year, but still did not find employment until October, and even then, it was only part time. I can assure you, as I did the IRS, that I did not earn $157,000.00. Actually, I earned less than $10,000.00 in 2010.
I kindly read the federal code mentioned above to the lady I spoke with at the IRS, reminding her that VA disability money is 100% exempt. She placed me on hold for another age (I could see a man coming- bearing water- over the horizon) and then she came back on the line and told me, “We do not take veterans’ disability money. We wait until the funds are deposited from the VA and then we take all of the funds from your bank account.”
All of this occurred after the veteran had been asked to be a contributing writer for key Tea Party personality “Joe the Plumber.”
The writer explains:
I jumped at the opportunity to join his team and give my work, such as this piece, a wider audience. I can’t help but think that part of my decision to join Joe’s team may have played a part in being singled out by the IRS at this specific time and having my VA disability money taken from me in complete breach of federal law.
As someone who had their taxes audited for the first time in 45 years after having made a contribution to the Tea Party, I can relate. It is becoming obvious that the IRS is no longer the apolitical agency it is supposed to be. It needs to be abolished and our income tax needs to be replaced by a consumption tax. For all of the class-envy people out there, that would cause the ‘evil rich’ to pay taxes on what they buy–if they live the life of luxury, they will pay more taxes. If they live like the rest of us, they will be taxed like the rest of us. It will end the need for the IRS, and solve the political problems the IRS has been having lately.