I love it! Here's the top man at the Associated Press talking to Bob Schieffer, the dean of Establishment Media talking heads, about the bad behavior of the Obama regime. The Soros drones at Media Matters are freaking out, trying to find a Fox News angle to this story...
A Big Chill on Free Speech
IRS and AP lesson: The government can come after you for exercising your rights.
The chill threatens to get even colder. It turns out that Sarah Hall Ingram, who served as head of the IRS office handling tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012 - when the targeting was going on - is now head of the IRS division in charge of the IRS office policing Obamacare.
She's a career IRS lawyer, and we don’t know whether she was aware of the targeting - though it would be a little surprising if she wasn't. She'll have a big job. The IRS is assigned a lot of work by the Obamacare law. It will impose penalties on Americans who can afford health insurance but choose not to buy it. It will impose penalties on companies with more than 50 employees who work 30 hours a week and don't provide government-mandated policies. It will give tax credits to non-affluent purchasers of health insurance on state exchanges. The IRS says it can also give tax credits to such people in states that have federally run exchanges, though many argue the law does not authorize that.
In other words, the IRS is going to possess and process a large amount of information not only on your income but also on your health insurance and perhaps your health.
The IRS was given these tasks by the drafters of Obamacare because no other government agency had the capability to gain access to people's personal financial information. They may have thought that taxpayers would trust an agency that they had gotten used to dealing with.
That level of trust may not be as high as it was ten days ago. Chilling effect, indeed.
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