Reply #26: Hey, I've got an idea. We tried playing nice, but it's time to put on the brass knuckles.

[TrollBuster9090]

We tried doing this honestly, by passing laws that try to even the democratic playing field by limiting the amount of corporate money that can be used to distort elections...but we were submarined by the conservative 5 on the supreme court who, ever since they broke all precedent by stopping the Florida recount, and illegally putting George Bush in the White House, have not been playing fair.

Alright, if you want to fight dirty, how about the following Tony Soprano style tactics from the Executive Branch.

1. Every time corporations try to pervert and distort democracy by dumping truckloads of money into the election process on one side of an issue, or disproportionately to one political party...the Obama Administration chooses (coincidentally) to ENFORCE the anti-trust laws on those companies. The anti-monopoly laws on the books are rarely enforced. Maybe it's time to start enforcing them, and doing it SELECTIVELY. Stay out of politics, and we'll leave you alone. Try to BUY DEMOCRACY and we'll bust your comfortable little monopoly up.

2. If the Republicans succeed in drastically reducing funding to the IRS to the extent that the IRS has to carefully triage who it chooses to audit, how about just auditing those companies and plutocrats that funded the lobby campaign to de-fund the IRS? Sounds fair to me. "Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with him!" - DeNiro as Al Capone, The Untouchables.

3. Again, if Republicans succeed in reducing funding to the IRS like they did under Phil Gramm in 1998, don't lay off all the high priced IRS auditors that specialize in high-end income tax returns, leaving only the ordinary auditors to hammer the middle class because they're least likely to fight back. Take all of the money you've got left to fund the IRS and put it EXCLUSIVELY into high priced tax lawyers who specialize in billionaire tax returns. ie-If you're going to defund the IRS, prepare yourself to be TARGETED by the IRS. No more of this crap where chopping the IRS off at the knees results in the middle class continuing to get audited while the plutocrats get a free ride. Let's have a standing policy where, if funding for the IRS goes down, the attention it pays to the upper 10% of income earners GOES UP.