21 Years After The IRS Stole Everything

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Some of you may have read my post telling the story of how the IRS went after my father for $150,000 of unpaid payroll taxes his controller neglected to pay. Part of what I didn't tell you is that when they took everything, they auctioned my parents' $3 million home for some outrageously low price. My parents put years of care into that house and the IRS stole it and gave it away for dirt cheap. What's really funny about it is that no one has managed to keep the house and live in it more than six months at a time over the past 21 years. Well, last night I found out that my Dad recently got a letter from the IRS 21 years after all of this began and they have cleared my father of all charges and wrongdoing. My sister said that my Dad cried when he read the letter, which I can understand. He's been through a nightmare and so have all of us. I have mixed feelings because part of me wants to shout for joy from the rooftops because I'm so happy that they finally admitted what the rest of our family knew from the beginning. The other part of me is so angry I could spit! How dare they steal what my father worked so hard to build and take twenty-one years to finally admit they were wrong? Now, they simply send a letter saying he's cleared of all charges. What about all the money and property they stole from my family! How do these people sleep at night? They've put our whole family through a nightmare that has lasted 21 years and, in a sense, is still not over because of all the financial situations we are still working through and now they admit they were wrong! I think they should have to pay back everything they stole from my father plus interest. If anyone besides the IRS had done this, they would have gone to jail! My parents are having to live on social security and whatever business my father can get going. It just isn't right that they should be struggling now when they did nothing wrong in the first place and the IRS stole everything they had. I'm talking about not only my parents' house. I'm talking about 3 private jets, a condo in Colorado and all of our cars. And, actually, they stole my ability to finish my degree at Pepperdine because my father was paying for it at the time and I had one week's notice before rent was due that Dad could no longer help me. So, I had to turn a part time job into a 70 hour a week job to keep the roof over my head. Thank God I had that job! In addition to all I've told you, the FBI also blackmailed my father in the midst of all of this. I will write another post about that and put a link here when I'm done. In spite of all of the anger I feel right now, as a Christian, I know who is really to blame for all of it. The Bible says that we struggle not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, the authorities and the powers of this dark world. Satan is the one who used these people to do what they did but what he tried to do failed. Satan tried to destroy our family but he failed miserably because we're still here and our family is stronger and closer than ever. We may still be going through challenges but we have our eyes on the prize set before us and we are fighting the good fight of faith. No weapon formed against us shall prosper and every tongue that rises against us in judgment, we shall show to be in the wrong! We are victorious in this and when all is said and done, we will come out on top as more than conquerors as God intended. One thing this whole thing has brought me to is a decision that I am going to do everything in my power to organize the citizens of this country to demand that the IRS be re-structured and held accountable for their actions. There needs to be some balance to their power and investigations should be completed before the IRS seizes someone's property. My family isn't the only ones who've been through this and it needs to stop!