[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13086]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

  (Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia. Madam Speaker, as an American small 
businesses owner, I deliver to my accountants each and every year 
tremendous sums of information that is then used to compile a tax 
return that I, along with my wife, like other hardworking Americans, 
must sign under penalty of perjury.
  I have no doubt that five CPAs, given the same information from any 
taxpayer, would calculate five different tax liabilities. Yet when the 
IRS comes calling, every American is guilty until they prove their 
innocence.
  Make a mistake or lose a receipt? For the taxpayer, guilty. Pay the 
penalty and interest, or the IRS will use the law to take your home, 
your car, your life savings, and they will put you in jail and leave 
your family in the ditch. But when the IRS gets caught cheating, they 
lie to Congress, take the Fifth, and destroy the evidence.
  If they get away with this, what and who is next?
  I can't help but think, Madam Speaker, that we must be getting close 
to George Orwell and what he described in his novel. While some people 
are created equal, under this administration others are more equal.
  Had the IRS abused liberal groups, the press and the administration 
would demand the prosecution of the individuals responsible, and that 
is exactly what should be happening right now.

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