By Mike Gray It would seem the current administration is so anxious to “go green” that taxpayers are — no surprise — getting thoroughly ripped off. The Internal Revenue Service is tasked with evaluating claims from people wanting tax credits for purchasing alternative and plug-in electric vehicles, but haste (and ideology) makes waste — and fraud and abuse: In automatically granting the bogus tax credits the Internal Revenue Service was simply following an aggressive Obama Administration plan to reward consumers that purchase the costly “advanced-technology” vehicles. The president is on a mission to get 1 million of the environmentally friendly cars on the road by 2015, according to Judicial Watch officials. “In order to help dealers sell unpopular vehicles, President Barack Obama and his administration are allowing law-abiding taxpayers to be swindled by a phony environmental program that invites fraud and abuse,” said political strategist Mike Baker. As a result of Obama pushing his environmental agenda, the IRS failed to appropriately scrutinize claims, even when they clearly didn’t meet the criteria. In the first six months of 2010 alone, 20 percent of such federal tax credits were “erroneous,” costing U.S. taxpayers more than $33 million. And get a load of
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