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[filkertom]

Republicans want IRS agents to ask those they audit about their abortions.

(h/t redneckgaijin)

Comments

[hbruton.livejournal.com]

That's the republicans for you. They want smaller goverment and less goverment intrustion in their lives until it comes to abortions, who's sleeping with you and other moral issues. Sheesh.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

That good ol' smaller, less intrusive gub'mint.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty pro-life myself and even I think this over reaches by a large margin. More and more the Republicans paint themselves into a corner with their big government conservatism.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Can we measure them all for long-sleeved jackets (with extra-strong tie-ties) now? This is only one of today's GOP craziness (the main other that I keep hearing about is the insanity of the Minnesota GOP trying to make it a crime for people on public assistance to have over $20 in cash)

They are nucking FUTS.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Wait, how could they even enforce that? If/when I get a tax refund, it goes into my savings account, which I withdraw from as needed for groceries/rent/bills/etc. So how does one prove that I didn't buy goods or services with tax money? WHY ARE WE WASTING TIME WITH THIS.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

You know I really don't want to think that all Republicans are heartless, cruel slaves to their corporate masters but the ones in charge just keep proving me wrong. *sigh* The only thing we can do is keep informing people as to what's going on and hope for the best.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

What the hell. No, seriously, I want to know. WHAT THE HELL.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Well, see, that's the thing. As hbruton and shsilver point out above, this is rank hypocrisy -- the Repubs constantly bellow that they want smaller government, and also constantly do shit like this. And, yeah, this one's completely unenforceable (and, if you read the story, you'll see the IRS doesn't want to enforce it). It has no chance of becoming law -- zero, none. All it is is a sop to the religious right, and to those who need to have power over women.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Like I told you awhile back, m'friend, you're not a Republican -- you're a liberal who has religion. :) And, bluntly, atheist though I am, I'm beginning to think we could use some more liberals with religion, because they at least tend to be aware of the tenets of their faith and try to live by them.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

It's not hypocrisy when Republicans do it. They're doing it for the taxpayer!
/snark off

Of course all the abortions they pay for will be done in untracable cash.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

It also proves Rachel Maddow right about them not really being small government conservatives. They're big government conservatives.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

It has no chance of becoming law

I think you seriously underestimate the ability of Democrats in general, and Obama in particular, to surrender to conservatives.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Because it's a means of intimidating people out of getting abortions. "Get an abortion, and we'll fine you for spending taxpayer money on it. And there's no way to prove you didn't, because money is fungible."

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Actually, I really am not worried about this one. I'm not worried about a lot of things these yutzes have proposed lately, except for the fact that the conversation has become bloody fucking insane. The Republicans' ultimate goal is to dismantle government completely, and their primary method of doing so is to demonstrate that government doesn't work and is evil.

Which, of course, is going to be the case, when the people in charge of it have no desire to get anything done, and are evil.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Did you notice that this was the revised, moderate version of the bill? (The original version said no cash for folks on public assistance.) Because they might use their twenty bucks to buy Cadillacs or something.

::rinses mouth of the taste of those words, even in sarcasm::

[lone-cat.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I call Harry Reid "The Spelunker".

[dragonmakr.livejournal.com]

someone tell me, please please please, let this be a joke. This is the party of small government, yes? Less government intrusion into our lives? Hello?

I guess they only want Big Brother when it suits them.

*goes and hides*

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

This is the party of Cheap Labor. "small government" is the catch phrase they use. Everything they do is in service of cheap labor.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

"Tell me, Senator, which hand do you jerk off with and what color is the boy's hair you fantasize about?"

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Which makes it all the more ironic that their leadership is primarily made up of Southern white males...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Disagree. *They* don't want to dismantle the government. You are right, that government their way doesn't work and is evil, but their goal is fear, uncertainty, doubt, totalitarianism, and Thoughtcrime. Fnord, Fnord.

What's *gonna happen* is that *we* are going to dismantle their sad excuse for a government... the question is, are we gonna get the rebuild right or are we going to royally screw the pooch.

I hope we don't royally screw the pooch; if the wheels all come off and our infrastructure goes to hell I've about six weeks to live.

[gorgeousgary]

(and, if you read the story, you'll see the IRS doesn't want to enforce it)

And won't be able to anyway, if the GOP gets their way. Seems to me I read somewhere they wanted to cut ~$100 million from the IRS's enforcement budget.

[gorgeousgary]

I'm not seeing how this reduces our national deficit/debt or creates jobs. I must be missing something.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Oh it gets worse. Signal boost from Pharyngula. The cons in MN want to make it a crime to be poor and have money.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/so_thats_what_they_mean_by_the.php

Word

[capplor.livejournal.com]

--R