Protests Outside Cincinnati IRS Office: Protesters vented their anger at the IRS in Cincinnati on Tuesday. The IRS is under investigation, amid revelations that a Cincinnati-base IRS division singled out conservative groups for additional scrutiny.
Tea Party members gathered outside the Internal Revenue Service in Washington D.C. and nationwide expressed their protest with
POSTERS SEEN AT PROTESTS
Audit the IRS
Stop the Targeting
Don’t Target Me Bro
Power Corrupts IRS
Abolish the IRS
End IRS Tyranny
Stop IRS WAR on Conservatives
Intimidating Republican Supports
Enough
Hey IRS Fairness Please
Worse than Watergate
The Power to Tax is the Power to Destroy
Smaller protests also occurred Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
IRS Protest St. Louis County May 21, 2013.
Residents of St. Louis County met in front of the IRS offices on May 21, 2013 to protest the IRS’ practice of targeting and harassing conservatives, patriots and Tea Party supporters. There were no city or county police there, ONLY DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY POLICE. According to the IG report, the IRS began targeting conservative organizations, especially Tea Party groups, in Feb. 2010, (although there is much evidence that they have been targeting conservative groups and Christian groups since the 1980’s.) The IRS agents were directed to target organizations with the words “patriot” or “tea party” in the names. The power to tax is the power to destroy. This is what it is like to live in a police state tyranny. It has become evident that they are planning on using the IRS as their Gestapo.
— YouTube.com/thenewsurvivalist
The quotation “The Power to Tax is the Power to Destroy” comes from the words of Daniel Webster and those of John Marshall in the Supreme Court case, McCulloch v. Maryland. Webster argued the case, saying: An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy, 17 U.S. 316. In his decision, Chief Justice Marshall said, “That the power of taxing it [the bank] by the States may be exercised so as to destroy it, is too obvious to be denied , and That the power to tax involves the power to destroy [is] not to be denied.” Excerpt from The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952.
McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819 established two important principles in constitutional law. First, the Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution’s express powers, in order to create a functional national government. Second, state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland while the Second Bank of the United States was the only out-of-state bank in Maryland. The Supreme Court voided the tax on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. Ironically the decision protected the federal government’s bank, and perhaps indirectly protected the citizens.