Stay updated with breaking news from Local irs. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
we will have much more with leader cantor. but right now, tea party groups are saying they are being targeted again. they say it is not just the irs, but the department of homeland security. jason hoyt is a tea party organizer from central florida. nice to see you. thank you so much. tell me what happens that makes you think that the department of homeland security is targeting the tea party, at least your organization? well, last week, last tuesday at noon, this went on all over the country, groups got together at their local irs office. we gathered in the rain for an hour or two, probably had a hundred or so folks there. there was dhs with their vehicle, half parked on the sidewalk, in front of a no-parking sign. they weren t out securing the border. they weren t enforcing the immigration law or looking for actual terrorists, they were i believe, continuing on with the chicago-style thug politics of intimidation. ....
We had a peaceful protest. we didn t have any arranged speakers. there they were in full gear, trying to intimstate and. did you ask or anyone you know ask why they were there? why it wasn t a local police matter? but you are outside a federal building, the irs right. did you ask them or engage them in any discussion? no. they left their vehicle there and they stood 20 or 30 feet away in the parking lot, kind of eyeing everybody as they went by. i didn t interact with them. i just went about and communicated with the folks there at the rally. again, i don t really know where why they were there. you can sense at least i can when police are around, whether they are there to protect or if they think something s going wrong or if they are trying to intimidate. did have you a sense what their presence there was it to protect the building or protect against any protest? or did you feel it was meant to intimidate? i really do feel it was meant ....
Or should both be doing it? obviously, the situation with the irs is very, very troubling. i don t care what party you are affiliated with in america, you don t expect that an incumbent president and his administration would using a neutral instrument like the tax enforcement agency, the irs, to go about discrim naight against political opponents. it s a serious matter. know in richmond, we have had a tea party group that was targeted. i have been in touch with them, since the minute they realized that that was the case. and we have to get to the bottom of this. i am very proud of our committee chairman and their members, both on the ways & means committee, chairman campand chairman issa and the oversight committee and the work they are doing. we will get to the bottom of this. and it is about producing the answers, about what the american people deserve and that is from the people who have conducted ....
Done if the american people are going to be able to trust the agency again. it seems to me, the irony, their growing unpopularity with obamacare and which ages is the agency that s going to administer historically the most unpopular and now one emploil broiled with targeting people. this couldn t be worse, i don t think. no, it couldn t. the irs role in carecrare is very real. employers have to report to the irs about what employees have insurance and what doesn t. the end of the year, insurance companies have to send a certificate to the irs about who has the insurance. you as a taxpayer get a certificate from your insurer and have you to send it in with your tax return. if you don t, you are in trouble with the irs. so the police powers are expanding. you know, i don t know how they are hiring people. i don t know where they will get the money. they have to get it from a republican house of representatives. i don t think they are going to ....
To intimidate. come to find out there they were at a number of different events around the country at different locations. but i do believe this is a multi-agency attack. brandon darby wrote about it about katheryn i englebrecht in true to vote. and they addressed steven miller about that. her family businesses and her organizationings were visited 17 times from multiple agencies. not just the irs, fbi and atf but osha, the epa. i believe this is a culture, if not a directive, from the federal government from somewhere. and i really appreciate the fact they are doing an investigation in a very serious manner. we only have 20 seconds left. was there any trouble, any disruption or any threats or anything thrown or tossed at your rally? no, not at all. ....