IRS checks to see if you party

When the Republicans initially started to push enactment of the Patriot Act, the paranoid Liberals expressed outrage and voiced concern about the potential for abuse.

This of course was met with "Trust Us" by the Bush Administration, we just want to keep everyone safe and scared. We need this tool in our arsenal to help prevent the bad people from hurting us. We would never use it against our own. After all, we don't look like Nixon, we look like Alfred E. Neumann. We're harmless. With the recent series of revelations about secrets and spies, we all know the ending of that story (fairy tale).

Here's the latest installment of "Secrets and Spies":

The IRS not only wants to know if you owe them $$$, but how you vote. The Tacoma News Tribune reports that IRS tracked taxpayers' political affiliation.

No way!! Can't be true. What does the IRS have to say about this?

"The bottom line is that we have never used this information," said John Lipold, an IRS spokesman. "There are strict laws in place that forbid it."

Thank God, I was getting a little concerned. Yes, they've been tracking your party affiliation, but they aren't going to do anything with it.

Relax. As they say, "Don't worry, be happy."

If you're interested, "According to Murray’s office, the 20 states in which the IRS collected party affiliation information were Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin."

No Pennsylvania. I guess they figure if you're from Philly or Pittsburgh, your a Democrat and if you hale from the Big T, you're Red, so no need to track.

(Via AMERICAblog)