The IRS deliberately and wrongfully classified millions of poor people as having filed fraudulent tax returns, even though they didn't. Through no fault of their own, their tax returns were withheld and they continue to have to live in fear of being prosecuted. Meanwhile, Tonyaa Weathersbee fires back here, asking whether the IRS overlooks real tax fraud among the prosperous. Left I on the news is blogging on it here.
What I'm wondering is if, instead, it was mainly just a convenient way to hold onto and play with a sizable bit of money belonging to people who wouldn't be able to come after it. Or, was it a more sinister attempt to disempower more people and drive them to measures which will ultimately help line the profit margins of, and provide an increased pool of virtual slaves for, the increasingly privatized prison industrial complex, a bit like the lengthier punishments for black cocaine than white cocaine helped ensure more forced labor was sucked from blacks.
Add this to the mass of history unlikely to appear in school books!
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