Would You Trust a Suspected Child Rapist With Your Private Tax Data?

I don't know how many red flags it's going to take before Americans awake from their stupor and accept the reality that living in a fascist dictatorship is a distinct possibility for themselves and their children in the not too distant future.

They claim it's only to help them identify undocumented immigrants, but let's be real here, how many undocumented immigrants file taxes with the government that would deport them?  Uh-huh - Drumpf and his people actually believe we're all that stupid.

There is only one reason for the IRS to be putting together a vast government infrastructure to accommodate the transfer of large amounts of taxpayer data to the thugs at ICE and that is so Drumpf, in his self-described role as 'dictator,' can use that data to manipulate and intimidate those who oppose him.

A corrupt con man, convicted felon, court-adjudicated rapist, and suspected child rapist who to this fucking day still refuses to release any of his own tax records should not be anywhere near this kind of power.

 

 

Link: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations

 

"The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.

ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.

Last month, in a previously undisclosed dispute, the acting general counsel at the IRS, Andrew De Mello, refused to turn over the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers sought by ICE. In an email obtained by ProPublica, De Mello said he had identified multiple legal “deficiencies” in the agency’s request.

Two days later, on June 27, De Mello was forced out of his job, people familiar with the dispute said. The addresses have not yet been released to ICE. De Mello did not respond to requests for comment, and the administration did not address questions sent by ProPublica about his departure.

In his email, De Mello said ICE’s request for millions of records did not meet those requirements, which include having a written assurance that each taxpayer whose address is being sought was under active criminal investigation.

“There’s just no way ICE has 7 million real criminal investigations, that’s a fantasy,” said a former senior IRS official who had been advising the agency on this issue. The demands from the DHS were “unprecedented,” the official added, saying the agency was pressing the IRS to do what amounted to “a big data dump.”"

 

 

 ---TFG