FLORENCE – The huge dustup now taking over Washington D.C. against the Internal Revenue Service’s singling-out and delaying right wing-groups their tax-free status has made it to town.
Tea Party protests Florence Internal Revenue Service.
Anti-tax activists moved onto the front lawn of the I.R.S. offices this morning with a protest against what they say is a flagrant overreach of authority. The activists came in the name of Tea Party Patriots of North Alabama. No so much a “rag-tag assemblage of tax-fighters”, but more buttoned-down… more civilized… angry.
The protest was organized only yesterday, according to Tea Party President, Steve Phillips, “We only decided yesterday to do this. We sent out an e-mail to see who could do it.” Phillips told The Quad-Cities Daily that his particular organization is not trying to qualify for a tax-exempt status. But the fact remains that, in his opinion, this overreach by the I.R.S. hurts everybody, not only those who are applying for the tax breaks. “They have the ability to put you out of business, they have the ability to bankrupt you. And you have no recourse,” he said that having the IRS take this path against United States Citizens is one of the most egregious transgressions by government. Proof, to him and his company of protesters that the Federal government is too big… too powerful. He said that we are in a dangerous time. “If they (the I.R.S.) call you in for an audit, and you sit there before them and say, ‘I don’t know,’ they’ll put you in jail,” he emphasized.
Steve Phillips – President Tea Party Patriots of North Alabama
When asked about his opinion as to the state of the Nation he said, “It tells me that we’re in a bad state. And I talked to a young man last night who is about 32 years old. And he said he believed that within his lifetime he would have to physically fight for his liberty and his country. And I hope it doesn’t come to that. I hope that this I.R.S. situation is a breaking point here. I hope that it makes Americans wake up. Because of what they see with the I.R.S. situation is a breaking point. and I hope that it doesn’t come to that. Because of that they see with the I.R.S. that americans will come back and take control.
