Christine O’Donnell Got Hit A SECOND Time By The IRS (In Error)…

How'd you like it if you tried to access your bank account, only to find out that it was levied?  Completely frozen?  You couldn't even buy freaking GAS with it?  It's the week before Thanksgiving, and you couldn't anything about it?  And worse?  You're at the mercy of the IRS, and they've made a mistake?  But they're taking their sweet time to return the money, because they can.  They're the IRS, for crying out loud.  They can do what they damn well please, minions.

This happened to Christine O'Donnell – actually it was the second time it's happened to her – and it happened this past Thanksgiving.  You remember Christine.  She was a Senate tea party candidate, so I'm sure you're shocked that her bank account was levied.  You know, by accident and all.

Per the source article (emphasis mine):

“The day before I was heading out of town for the Thanksgiving weekend, my bank told me the IRS had frozen my accounts. They didn’t give me a reason why, just a phone number to call,” Ms. O’Donnell said in an interview this week.

She said she called the Internal Revenue Service and was told the agency had concluded she owed $30,000 in taxes from a 2008 house transaction, which was long ago accounted for on her federal returns. She said she implored the agency to check her tax records and eventually was told the levy was generated in error and her accounts would be freed up.

Although IRS officials removed the levy, they first withdrew all the funds from her account. They said that, too, was in error and the funds would be returned to her. The funds have not been replaced, Ms. O’Donnell said.

I love how the government is so speedy in taking people's hard-earned money, but so very sloooooow in giving it BACK to folks after they've taken it from them.  Weird how that process works.

Anywho, O'Donnell said that the IRS "said it was a mistake, and they removed the levy. I’m grateful, but I also wonder what someone with less government experience might do when they find themselves frozen from their money because the IRS got its paperwork mixed up. It can be scary. You feel helpless if you can’t even buy gas for your car,” she said.

And she has a point.  What if it was one of us?  She's a public figure.  I mean, she at least has THAT on her side to give her some pull.  But imagine the everyday, regular person having to fight the IRS, y'all.  Imagine how helpless they are against that machine.  They can literally CLOSE DOWN BANK ACCOUNTS and leave families without means to live.  And they cost us taxpayers $29 million a DAY.  We're paying THEIR SALARIES TO DO THIS STUFF.

But, you know, we don't need tax reform or anything (end sarcasm).