Another great speech today - Becky Gerritson

From Bryan Preston writing at PJ Tatler:

Tea Party Leader Becky Gerritson Tells IRS, Congress, Government: �You�ve Forgotten Your Place�
Today, Wetumpka Tea Party leader Becky Gerritson delivered a thumping to the Internal Revenue Service and to politicians in Washington. Gerritson explained how she came to be an activist, then told members of the House Ways and Means Committee that her group of Americans had come together because �our representative government had failed us.� The IRS abuse of her group provided proof, if more was needed.

�I am not here as a serf or vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy. I�m a born free American woman, wife, mother and citizen. And I�m telling my government that you�ve forgotten your place. It�s not your responsibility to look out for my well-being, and to monitor my speech. It�s not your right to assert an agenda. Your post, the post that you occupy, exists to preserve American liberty. You�ve sworn to perform that duty. And you have faltered.�

Gerritson went on to detail the invasive questions that the IRS asked of her group, including contents of all their written communications, information on group members and speakers, and more. Gerritson says she and her husband considered dropping their application due to the IRS� actions. Gerritson also dropped a bombshell on the committee: Her group received an inquiry letter bearing Lois Lerner�s signature. Lerner has claimed that the IRS abuse of groups like Gerritson�s was the work of a couple of �rogue employees.� Lerner has since plead the Fifth Amendment in her refusal to testify on the abuse, and has been placed on administrative leave.

Now would be a fantastic time to disband that IRS and replace it with a flat national sales tax. No loopholes, no deductions. Done right, revenues to the government would substantially increase and it would only need to be around 10%.