Are you free?

[unhappycamper]

Our old buddy, Rep Steve king prompted this question. First the article:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/19/steve-king-secret-income-is-part-of-freedom/



Steve King: Secret income is ‘part of freedom’
By David Edwards
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 13:36 EDT

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Wednesday told a tea party rally that the Internal Revenue Service should be abolished because keeping income secret from the federal government was “part of freedom.”

“You know, the IRS audited me one too many years in a row,” King explained at a Tea Party Patriots rally in Washington D.C. “And I wondered, ‘Why are they in my kitchen, why are they looking through my books, why are they asking me these Monday morning quarterback questions?’ And I went back out and climbed back into the seat of my old bulldozer and the smoke went out the exhaust stack and my ears. And I thought, ‘I’d like to get rid of the IRS.’”

“I don’t need them poking through my books, I don’t need them telling my pastor or my priest what he’s going to be able to preach from the pulpit,” he continued. “In fact, it’s not even the government’s business how much money you make. That’s a part of freedom.”

The Iowa Republican asserted that “this big brother’s gotten a lot creepier than George Orwell ever thought it would get.”



unhappycamper comments:
* Since I have no secret income I must not be free.
* In my book, Steve King has all the gravitas of Louie Gohmert or Michelle Bachman.

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[galileoreloaded]

1. one one level he is correct

i've often said that a revolution will ignite with the left, but over money. why keep paying 100% of your taxes when your public library, free clinic, services are cut to nothing. you wont.

[geckosfeet]

2. Ugh. Standing beind a podium with that signage?

Libertarian droppings seem to be everywhere these days.

[Monkie]

3. his quotes could be used to call for a end to the NSA/CIA

and all the other alphabet soup agencies that are doing the same or worse with even less legitimate reasons.

[hobbit709]

4. Nope and neither is King-he's owned in fee simple.

[Sunlei]

5. why don't the ' i hate taxes baggers' go after local taxes like- property tax, sales tax?

[graham4anything]

6. In 2016, after the voting is done, We will be free of all extremists and it will be 80-20.

then we will be free.

It's gonna be the end of the world as we know it, and won't it feel fine!
(to paraphrase r.e.m.)

[baldguy]

7. We're less free because of those people.

[MindPilot]

8. IRS agents in his kitchen?! A bulldozer in the back? Smoke comes out the stack AND his ears?

He's laying it down pretty thick there.

I've been through several IRS audits in my life, and they never came to my house. Only once did I have to go to an IRS office, and that was only because I didn't have access to a FAX.

I'm not sure this rises to the level of lying--it's not even believable bullshit.