**Posted by Phineas
Hey, remember when President Obama told his followers to punch back [1] against their enemies “twice as hard?” Or when he joked about setting the IRS [2] on his critics?
Maybe it’s not such a joke. Via Mark Steyn [3]:
A couple of weeks back, cancer patient Bill Elliot, in a defiant appearance on Fox News, discussed the cancelation of his insurance and what he intended to do about it. He’s now being audited [4].
Insurance agent C Steven Tucker, who quaintly insists that the whimsies of the hyper-regulatory bureaucracy do not trump your legal rights, saw the interview and reached out to Mr Elliot to help him. And he’s now being audited [5].
You’d think, after the public uproar over the revelations about the IRS harassing Americans [6] for their political beliefs, that the agency and the administration would be wary of anything that resembled using the tax service as political weapon.
But that isn’t the Chicago Way [7].
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [8])