The IRS - RushOnline.com

Have every US taxpayer fill all the proper forms they might need, put all the totals onto the Form 1040, and stop on the back page where it says, "If you want the IRS to figure your tax, stop here and simply sign below." Inundate them with having to figure everyone's tax. If you should get a notice of an amount due, get out your copy of your tax and start showing them where they are wrong because they did not understand what you were talking about. Well, why not??? Hear you every day on KTOK, 1000 AM, OK city. Thanks for being there.

Shirley

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IRS and Federal Reserve

Please find and read the book, "The Creature from Jekyll Island". You will not regret it. I have read it three times this year. I found one copy from a local library and then ordered several copies from a well known bookstore. If you care about your future then read it. It is a real life conspiracy.

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Why any IRS?

Shirly, the first thing is why would anybody "sign" this 1040 blank check.?? The IRS all ready takes almost as much money out of your check each week, as they want. The only fair "IRS" is no "IRS".!!! Why not? If we must fund these programs, have a consumption tax.. And why is it that "unenployment benefits" are taxable and "welfare" is not? This free ride on welfare is truly free, and is never considered "Income" by the "IRS", yet social security payments are, in most cases, taxable.

The consumption tax is payed at the time of purchase, not caring where the money came from.Then it would realy be "VOLUNTARY" as the IRS code reads. I listen to your show daily,on 1040AM in Morgantown----Thanks, for the time you spend giving everyone the truth, and thanks to 1040AM for delivering it to me daily.

Grover

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I propose the Republicans and all conservative groups begin and continue a campaign to copy the Joe Camel anti smoking campaign, that would be against the IRS. You could call it ban 'Joe Clinton'. We could harp on tax audit abuse, tax waste, and tax fraud until the 1998 elections.

I also suggest combining a flat tax with a zero tax bracket to $35,000 or what ever minimum income agreed on, with a national sales tax, 5% minimum, for shelter, transportation, food, 10% middle tax, other necessities, and 15% maximum for luxuries.

Jeri

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Income Tax News

In 1991, the IRS reported that there were 163 million "taxpayers", and in a seperate report, they claimed that they received 111 million tax filings for that year. What happened to the other 52 million? The Internal Revenue Service is silent about them. Some probably got to tax-filing time, didn't have the money, and are hiding under the bed in fear. But many, many of these "missing" people learned how to be EXEMPT from the IRS and the Federal Income Tax, and have permanently dropped out of the system!

To learn more about income tax freedom in America, stop in at:http://FutureGate.com/tax_buster

Best Regards, Jon

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I've been reading horror stories in National Review and Reader's Digest about IRS abuses of taxpayers since the 1960's and nobody in Washington has gotten exercised over it before. Why now? Because next year is an election year and the Republicans need to distract potential voters from the fact that they've gotten very little accomplished in Washington since taking power. Since 1994, about all the congressional majority has done is prove the truth of George Wallace's observation that "there's not a dime's worth of difference between the parties". Besides, the Republicans had a hand in creating the monstrosity that we call a tax code. I say a pox on both parties.

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Tax Relief

Why is it that so many Americans are against making the tax code more simple? I wish people would quit worrying about who is getting unfair advantages and realize that their own opposition to tax reform is really what is causing them to fall behind. I am 28 y.o and have busted my butt for years to get ahead. My wife and I are building our assets and are just finishing a two year red tape adventure adding onto our house with the city permit and tax process. We had to pay thousands in fees and problem more than ten-thousand in hidden governmental costs due to taxes and regulations. Now we are waiting for our property taxes to double when they are reassessed.

My wife and I are now planning for early retirement hopefully in our mid-to-late forties and talk about a discouraging prospect when you take into account even a twenty percent capital gains tax and ten percent in penalties.

Get Forbes on the Republican ticket I will hold a sign for him on my street corner and will certainly be at the voting booth voting for a flat tax of seventeen percent after the first thirty thousand of income.

Kent B.

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The Pollock Case

In the Pollock decision, the court, (unanimous except for my favorite justice of the era ,Harlan,) for the first time established itself as a power to overturn the legislative branch, to toss out a law altogether.

They did this to stem the tide of reform in the United States. They saw the tarif bill which contained the income tax as an attack on the rich by the rabble. The income tax portion of the tarif bill imposed a tax on any income over $4000. And no taxes if your income was under $4000.

That would be the equivalent of taxing income over $400,000 and none under today. It was only a 2% tax. The court saw this as an egregious attack against the accumulation of wealth in the forms of stocks, bonds and real properties. Their decision was along class lines.

You have to go back to Hamilton in The Federalist to understand the apportionment issue. I'm not sure I do, I am going to revisit it this week.

Pollock is an important case in American history, but whether or not it makes the IRS unconstitutional is a whole other ball of wax.

Tell ya what...Lets get Rush to not pay his taxes and use this argument in court......

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Forbes for President

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IRS Lotto

How about an IRS lottery. The winner gets One million dollars tax free and NEVER pays taxes again!

Steve from California

" Nothing will come from nothing. Dare Mighty things." Shakespeare. Steve and Robyn

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The Roman Circus

While all of us are blinded by the glitz of all the scandals in Washington we are failing to see how so many of us are being over-taxed. We have serious problems in the country and no one is really working on them.

Let's get back to the idea of replacing the whole tax system and let's try to make it as fair to all as possible. With the exception of food, clothing and other "necessities" a sales tax should replace it; since if you don't buy it you don't pay the tax on it.

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I ADOPTED MY DAUGHTER IN 1995 AND I CLAIMED HER ON MY TAXES THAT YEAR, THE IRS HAS AUDITED ME FOR 95 AND 96, THEY INFORMED ME THAT I COULDN'T CLAIM HER. I THEN SEND COPIES OF THE COUNT ORDER THAT GIVE ME CUSTODY OF HER TILL THE ADOPTION WAS FINAL, THIS WAS ISSUED TO US IN FEB. OF 95 AND THE ADOPTION WAS FINAL IN NOV.95. I ALSO SEND COPIES OF THE FINAL ADOPTION PAPER ISSUED TO US FROM THE STATE OF ALABAMA. THE COURT ORDERS READS THAT WE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HER MAINTENANCE TILL THE ADOPTION WAS FINAL.

I FEEL THAT WE HAVE PROVEN OUR CASE WITH LEGAL PAPERS BUT THEY HAVE REFUSED THEM. I ALSO SENT THEM COPIES OF HER BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND SS CARD THAT WAS ISSUED TO US AFTER THE ADOPTION, THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE HAS OUR NAME AS HER PARENTS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW BECAUSE WE CAN'T REALLY AFFORD A TAX LAWER AND WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE IN TO THE IRS, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CLAIM OUR DAUGHTER! IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING THAT WOULD HELP US PLEASE ADVISE ME.

THANKS DONNA FROM ALABAMA

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IRS and US Postal Service (Mindboggling)

Can you imagine having to deal with both the IRS and the US Postal Service for one issue at the same time ? This is a fate that could only be created in the depths of hell. Finding myself in this situation proves to be a horror story. "How the &%$# did you get into this situation" you ask ? How can anyone be subject to dealing with the two federal agencies that are known to be the new kinder gentler IRS and the Barney Fife of Federal Agencies the U.S. Postal Service, respectively, at the same time ? Let me tell you my dilemma.

I moved to a beautiful little villa that was actually a part of the beach in Ocean Ridge, FL, in February 1997. I signed a year lease and had my mail forwarded to this new address in Ocean Ridge, FL. At the end of the year, my lease was converted to a month-to-month lease. After a year and one month I decided to relocate to California, as my lease would expire on February 28th, 1998. So, per my move I filled out the address change form for the Post Office and sent it in. About a week later the mailman came by with my form and said "the Post Office will not forward your mail because we consider this residence a motel/hotel". I informed him that I have lived here for over a year and that this is not a motel/hotel. He informed me that there was nothing they {Post Office} could do. So be it, a perfect example of "the Post Office hard at avoiding work".

Prior to my notifying the post office, I filed my federal taxes on February 12th, 1998. What a mistake !!! After the post office refused to forward my mail. I informed everyone of my new address by mail and/or with a phone call, including the IRS. Everyone got the message, except one. Guess who. The IRS !!! The IRS returned my federal tax return to my old address on approximately March 10th, 1998. Fortunately, my landlord recognized the envelope and forwarded it to my new address. Inside the envelope the IRS explained that I neglected to send a form. I went through the copy packet of my federal return that I keep for my records and found the form completed. Maybe I neglected to send the form or maybe the IRS lost the form. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Do I have any choice?

The date - March 16th 1998. I filled out the form, again, and sent it in with a note of my new address in big, black, bold letters with my new phone numbers. April 26th, 1998, I call the IRS for a status on my return. They informed me that it is complete and a check will be mailed on May 1,1998. "Great" I said. I then asked "It will be sent to my new address, correct" ? They then read off my old address and informed me that they have no record of my new address. "Oh *%@!" I said. They informed me that the check will be sent to my old address and that there was nothing that they could do. Where have I heard that before ? They suggested that I call the post office in Ocean Ridge, FL and inform the supervisor of the situation. I called the Boynton Beach, FL post office which provides service for Ocean Ridge, FL and talked to the supervisor, Rich Fermo, and explained my dilemma. He informed me to send him a copy of my license, a S.A.S.E., and a written and signed note explaining the situation. I sent this to the supervisor of the Boynton Beach, FL Post Office, Rich Fermo, on April 27th, 1998.

All I really needed was for the Boynton Beach, FL Post Office to forward one piece of mail. I called Rich Fermo on May 11th, 1998 and asked him if the tax check had been forwarded. He told me that the regular delivery person for that route was on vacation the week of 5/4/98-5/8/98 and that no mail for me was intercepted. He informed me that it was probably returned to the sender. "Just great !!!" I said.

Absolutely pathetic. In my mind all I saw were the two "jack off " postal workers in the Federal Express commercial. Remember that one, with the real young brand new postal employee without a clue and the old guy talking about retirement both just loafing on the job. Then they pull the shade down at the counter with a huge line of customers waiting outside.Total incompetence !!!

So, what THE *&%$ now. SON OF A BISCUIT EATER !!! Back to the IRS. I call the (800) 829-1040 number and I am informed by a recording that I can't talk to a live person and no other numbers are provided.

To the internet. I find the Jacksonville, FL number and speak with an IRS representative. She informed that I would need to fill out form 3911, which is not available on the IRS internet web site (www.irs.gov), and would be mailed within a week. I was further informed that this would start the process of a trace on the check and would take at least six weeks after receiving the filled out form. Just great so I may have my refund by Independence Day (July 4th, 1998). I am not counting on it. So, it will be approximately 20 weeks to get my refund, 20 weeks !!! THAT'S 4 1/2 MONTHS !!! AND THAT'S MAYBE, MAYBE !!! WHAT A JOKE OUR GOVERNMENT IS !!! WE ARE A BANANA REPUBLIC !!!!

Cavin

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Our "Voluntary" Tax System.

Countrymen,

I recently recieved a letter from my Congressman (Steve LaTourette, R-19, Ohio) in which the term "voluntary" was used in conjunction with the phrase "participation in our tax system".

Abolish the tax code and the IRS!!! Vote for Steve Forbes and the Flat Tax in the year 2000!!!

Paul of Ashtabula, OH

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The IRS may in some cases be abusive, but remember that the Congress passes literally hundreds of new tax laws every year. The place to start with tax reform is with those who make the laws.

Larry

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Forbes has it wrong. He should not call it the Flat Tax because it's not flat! It is more uniformly graduated than the current tax code. It is the BIG Deduction Tax! Everyone likes Big Deductions! Lets get some good press going. Vote for the Big Deduction!

Ron in Virginia

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IRS Abuse

Just heard about you and the Aliens. Please tell them there is a small town down South, Picayune,Mississippi, pop. 20,000 that has more IRS audits, farm seizures, bank seizures, inane IRS threatening letters per square half-mile than anywhere in the US. The secret is out! Last month my father who is 81 learned the IRS wants $15 thousand of his SS back. He lives across the creek from my husband and I. We run a mom and pop horse rental, (seasonal) business out of a barn built in 1921, not exactly Calumet Farms. My IRS letter demanded that I send info on my stocks and government securities, Capital stock, treasury stock, mortgages, notes and bonds payable, US govt. obligations, trade notes, ad infinitum. If I answer the goofy letter, and tell them all my stock eats hay and has four legs, I know an audit is imminent. Please tell the Aliens, I will be standing in the hay field on Independence Day, with about half the population of Picayune, Mississippi, please make sure they bring the Mother Ship. When word gets around about the rescue, they will be swamped.

I will miss you Rush

Marsha

Former Earth Resident

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Subj: IRS reform

We're going to really have to fight the liberals for any kind of IRS reform. You see, there's this wonderful tax credit out there called the Earned Income Tax Credit that's geared to lower income individuals. It's a refundable tax credit, meaning that even if you don't owe any tax, and have paid nothing into the system, you still get a refund check. There's thousands of people out there who pay absolutely ZERO in federal income taxes, and yet at tax time get refunds of up to $3,656 (tax year 1997 numbers). It's welfare throught the tax code. No it's worse than that. At least with welfare there's some resembalance of strings attached. Food stamps are supposed to be used for food, etc. This Earned Income Tax Credit is free money for you to spend on whatever you want - drugs, alcohol, Democratic re-election fund, etc. You think these people are just going to sit by and let you take their welfare check? Oh NO! Whatever you propose, flat tax or sales tax, they'll be saying that "You'll be raising taxes on the poor!" Never mind they pay absolutely nothing into the system at all.

Dave

Virginia

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Rearranging the IRS will not do anything. It still has the job of stealing billions of dollars a year. With a job like that, there is nothing you can do to make it 'freindly'. Support the Libertarian party and we might actually be able to get rid of the IRS.

Travis

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Get the IRS off our back and put them to looking after the Polls. Inflict a tax on all contributions, and have the IRS follow up to be sure everything is on the up and up!

Donald

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Folks, go to the local library and check out a book called "The Federal Mafia" by Irwin Schiff. This book honest-to-God contains the information the government doesn't want anyone to know. I confirmed the book's conclusions by writing letters to the IRS, my congressional delegation, legal counsel for the Federal Register and the Treasury Dept. None of these agencies would touch my questions with a 30-ft pole. Most of the time I didn't even get an answer, and these letters went certified. When you ask the government to answer the following 4 questions, watch how quick they run for cover:

1. Is filing an income tax return compulsory or voluntary?

2. What Internal Revenue Code section makes me liable for income taxes?

3. What Internal Revenue Code section requires that income taxes be & paid on the basis of a return8, as, for example, code section 5703(b) does with respect to tobacco taxes?

4. Since Public Law 93-579 requires the IRS to notify me as to the effect, if any, of my not providing all or any part of the requested information, does the code provide criminal penalties for not providing the information requested on a Form 1040?

Remember, once you understand what a VOLUNTARY tax system based on SELF-assessment means, you should have no trouble or pangs of conscience changing your W-4 status to "exempt", then following up with a "zero income" return on April 15 with the attached statement that Irwin has composed. Also check out Irwin's website at http://www.ischiff.com/ for more enlightenment. This information is the "cat" nobody in Washington wants to get out of the bag.

Peace, Brian

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New Tax Code

I say scrap the IRS and go with the national sales tax. The problem with the flat tax is that the IRS remains in place. Abolish the IRS. The other advantage of the national sales tax is that the states already have a collection mechanism in place and do not need to hire more government employees.

Abolish the IRS and save billions of $$$ and let the people of this country, truly volunteer their tax dollars by only being taxed on the money they spend.

Hopefully the year 2000 problem will dissolve the irs and our prayers will be answered.

atlanta

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www.taxgate.com has hit it on the nose after several letters to IRS and my congressman. I now know the truth.

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Of course the rich pay the lion's share of the taxes. The top 10% of the wage-earners own 90% of the nation's wealth. DUH!

Gottlieb

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The IRS is a tool used by the Demos to terrorize people, and collect taxes for their social programs. The goverment has their foot on the back of Americans necks , with their faces shoved in the dirt. While they pick our pockets to give away our childerns future to third world countries, while our own, hard working ,taxpaying people do without. Congress has allowed this man to sign away our National parks,and dictate how our children should be taught. We are now paying for UN troops to do" mock"? invasions into the heart of U.S. cities, and we are paying for this. Stop taking away from our elderly, our Vets, our children and social security to pay fot the demise of America. Do not send my tax dollars to the UN or the IMF. let the big investment firms bail out their own investments. I want to invest in AMERICA.

Regards,

ROSS

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We all have been deceived into joining the IRS club.

Regards,

ROSS

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Extortion

Stop paying and see what happens. I underpaid by $13.00 dollars and was sent seven letters and threats. The taxes are high because THEY CAN take what they want. Newt just said the Dems budget scoring saw 3 trillion deficit, after the Repubs cleaned up, the scoring is 1 + trillion surplus.

Thank You Republicans Everywhere

mark.

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Re: press release

To Media Bypass

 

As requested by your publication, here are the information: The press release was Dec./15/98 You can find some material in the article published in the "National Enquirer" Dec./15/98, "HE'S SO SICK OF RED TAPE & TAXES, HE'S BUILDING HIS OWN COUNTRY" and in the article in the "San Jose Mercury News" Dec./22/98, "UTOPIA ? HAVE IT YOUR WAY - FOR $1,500 UP FRONT".

However, since new things have happened. The "Principality of New Utopia" joined forces with NEWAMERICA.ORG a membership organization recruiting "victims of the system" (people who have been prosecuted and harassed for taxes as well victims of crime).

The estimated number is about 41 million. It is a statistical fact, at present there is no country in the world, that has a higher percentage of "victims of the system" then the U.S. You can find the details at - http://newamerica.org/

Sincerely,

Ed Romanoff

pfsystem@newamerica.org

Ph. (831) 620-1102 Fax (831) 373-0248

 

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Al Gore trying to protect IRS and the Tax Code

I found the following in the news concerning Al Gore's 2000 campaign:

"The proposal included tax credits of $750 million over five years to support ``Better America bonds,'' which could be used to preserve green space, create or restore urban parks, protect water quality and clean up abandoned industrial sites.

The administration estimates that the credits would generate $9.5 billion in bond authority for investments by state and local governments.

``Communities will have access to zero-interest financing because investors who buy these 15-year bonds will receive tax credits in lieu of interest,'' an administration background paper said." "

I BELIEVE that Al Gore and the Democrats are trying to ensure that the IRS remains around largely unchanged. By granting tax credits for these bonds, the American public will now have a vested interest in keeping the Tax Code the way it is.

Keep the faith and spread the truth.

Michael

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End IRS Abuse

Don't be fooled. Forbes' Flat Tax is a FLAT INCOME TAX -- it RETAINS
THE IRS! The Flat Income Tax actually gives the IRS greater power -- it makes their jobs easier and will allow them to increase their abuse of US citizens! Support a National Retail Sales Tax -- it closes the IRS. No more April 15 and everything that goes with it. No more dreading the call or letter from the IRS. Support a national retail sales tax . To learn more, go to Americans for Fair Taxation website or visit www.nationalsalestax.com. Do not vote to retain the IRS and Income Tax by voting for Steve Forbes' plan; we must close the IRS.

Bob from Jonesboro

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OSHA

OSHA is a really great project. They can &*^%$# us without directly violating the Constitution or our civil rights. Great idea to put OSHA into the home. More control. The problem: How to implement it without the "Rush people" killing it.

I'll tell you how they will do it. The IRS will come out with a ruling that will say: "If you want to take an 'in home' deduction on your taxes, you must comply with OSHA requirements and inspections." With American business growing toward the "Cottage Industry" they will get their foot in the door which will eventually lead to everyone being subject to OSHA and their rules.

Has to do with business, not individual rights, and if things like this are not stopped in their tracks we and people like us might find their is no work for us.

Ron

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OSHA and home offices

Re: Your program January 4, 2000. OSHA proposed notion to make companies responsible for safety of persons working in home offices sounds to me to be a strategy by the IRS to eliminate the tax benefits of an individuals home office. When the employing company no longer allows an employee to work at home, the tax revenue to the IRS will increase, the cost of administration of the home office program will be less by the IRS. And, of course, the IRS can eliminate another tax benefit of the individual citizen.

Another topic: Have you read the book "Year of the Rat" by Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II? This is a plausible and well documented account of how Bill Clinton compromised U.S. security for Chinese money. Messrs. Timperlake and Triplett are congressional insiders and national security specialists.

Norman D. Medland

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Woman who questioned Gore now faces IRS inquiry
By Bill Sammon
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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The woman who sharply questioned Vice President Al Gore at a town-hall meeting about Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation against President Clinton has become the subject of an inquiry by the Internal Revenue Service. "I find it very suspicious," said Katherine Prudhomme, who subjected Mr. Gore to several long, uncomfortable minutes of questioning about the Broaddrick case in December. "I feel like I'm being harassed." Mrs. Prudhomme said she was notified of the IRS inquiry on Aug. 18, one day before she delivered a long-planned speech about Mrs. Broaddrick outside Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign headquarters in New York. After the speech, she walked into the headquarters and gave a videotape of Mrs. Broaddrick's NBC interview to a campaign aide, asking that it be forwarded to Mrs. Clinton.

Although the IRS did not initiate a formal audit of Mrs. Prudhomme, the tax agency has demanded expense forms pertaining to her daughter's schooling in 1998."My taxes are far too simple for them to audit me," she told The Washington Times. "So they said I owe them $1,500 if I don't come up with these forms from my child's school that I sent in two years ago and that they must have lost. It doesn't make sense." Mrs. Prudhomme, a homemaker in Derry, N.H., is doubly suspicious because in June she accused the IRS of auditing Mrs. Broaddrick's nursing home business "for political reasons."
The accusation was contained in an op-ed newspaper column that also questioned audits of Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and Elizabeth Ward Gracen, all of whom have accused Mr. Clinton of sexual affairs or advances.
"We certainly don't target people" for political reasons, said an IRS spokesperson who asked to remain anonymous. "The IRS strictly adheres to a standard of reviewing cases only when there are questions involving tax law. No other factors enter into our procedures." Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera said: "We have nothing to do with the IRS or its activities."

The Prudhomme case recalls the case of Glenn and Patricia Mendoza, who were attending a festival in Chicago in July 1993 when they encountered Mr. Clinton, who staged an impromptu visit to shake hands with voters. Mrs. Mendoza was the first person the president approached, but she refused to shake his hand. "You suck, and those boys died," Mrs. Mendoza told Mr. Clinton, referring to the June 1993 truck-bombing at a U.S. barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. After the president departed, the Secret Service apprehended the Mendozas, who were accused of unruliness. They were arrested by Chicago police and later investigated by the IRS. After the tax agency's inquiry was publicized by The Times, the IRS dropped the matter, blaming it on a "computer error."

Yesterday, Mr. Mendoza said he was not surprised that Mrs. Prudhomme has been targeted.He said he sympathizes with her plight because IRS secrecy makes it impossible to prove the tax agency is motivated by reasons of politics rather than finance. "Nobody believes you and that's the hard part," he said. "It sounds like you're a nut case. And so they're really in a quite unique position to keep doing this to people."

In an effort to find concrete evidence of political motivation, Mrs. Prudhomme has enlisted Judicial Watch, a conservative legal foundation that has long been a thorn in the Clinton-Gore administration's side.

Yesterday, Judicial Watch invoked the Freedom of Information Act in requesting any documents pertaining to Mrs. Prudhomme that might exist in the offices of Mr. Gore, Mr. Clinton, the IRS, the Secret Service and the FBI. "We blanketed everybody," said Judicial Watch chairman Larry Klayman. "There's an eerie symmetry here in that our client, Juanita Broaddrick, gets a tax audit after she sues the White House." The Clinton-Gore IRS has targeted the National Rifle Association and numerous conservative organizations and individuals who have crossed the administration. The audits sparked the first congressional inquiry of accusations of political abuses by the IRS since the Nixon era, although the tax agency has steadfastly denied political motivations. Mrs. Prudhomme, a self-described "rape survivor," flummoxed Mr. Gore during the town-hall meeting by asking him if he believed Mrs. Broaddrick's claim that Mr. Clinton once raped her. Last year's interview of Mrs. Broaddrick by NBC's Lisa Myers electrified the nation, 80 percent of whom told pollsters they believed her story. "My question to you is not a question about you being a presidential candidate, but a question to you as a husband, a father and a student of Christianity," Mrs. Prudhomme told the vice president. "When Juanita Broaddrick made the claim, which I found to be quite credible, that she was raped by Bill Clinton, did it change your opinion about him being one of the best presidents in history? "And do you believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim?" she added. "And what did you tell your son about this?"

"Well, I didn't know what to make of her claim, because I don't know how to evaluate that story," Mr. Gore replied. "I didn't see the interview. . . . What show was it on?"

Mr. Gore went on to defend his boss. "Whatever mistakes he made in his personal life are, in the minds of most Americans, balanced against what he has done in his public life as president," he said. "I'm taught in my religious tradition to hate the sin and love the sinner. I'm taught that all of us are . . . prone to the mistakes that flesh is heir to." Mrs. Prudhomme was employed at a musical instrument factory in 1998, although she currently spends her time home-schooling her daughter.

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