Now It’s the Democrats’
Turn to Spy on Americans!
If you think the election of Barack Obama will end illegal government surveillance of its citizens, you haven’t been paying attention.
One of Obama’s first acts as president was to file a brief in federal court siding with the former Bush Administration and insisting that the government should be allowed to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants.
Privacy advocates insist Americans will have just as much to fear from Democrat spies as
they had from the Bush Administration—perhaps more.
That’s because, while George W. Bush and the Republicans trounced on civil liberties and used warrant-less wiretaps in the pursuit of global terrorists, Barack Obama and his Democrat allies are going to use the same spying technologies… on U.S. taxpayers!
“Hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes are owed to the government each year but are not being collected,” warned Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a Democrat from New York and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, himself investigated for criminal tax evasion.
According to the New York Times, the kinds of “tax cheats” Obama and the Democrat-congress plan on targeting include “…self-employed painters and plumbers, small family businesses (from local florists and dry-cleaners to restaurants) and the growing legions who sell things over eBay and other Internet auction sites.”
“Tax cheats come in all shapes and sizes,” explained Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, Chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Levin is pushing through a bill in Congress that would make offshore bank accounts virtually illegal.
“This bill contains innovative and powerful measures that could strike an immediate and strong blow against these tax dodges,” he said in 2008. “These provisions would recover billions that could help pay for health care, education, manufacturing support, aid for wounded warriors and more.”