VOLinthaNATI
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Because this would never happen if a republican was in office :sarcasm:. Politicians and their parties do anything to win by any means possible. This isn't surprising honestly. Oh but I forgot democrats don't pay taxes though har har har........
Of course everyone would agree that the IRS should not make a particularized effort to go after a series of organizations based on the political affiliation of those organizations.
That is not what happened here.
The error, she said, was in assuming that any group with "tea party" or "patriot" in its name necessarily needed more scrutiny for political activity just because of its name. About 300 groups that had applied for tax-exempt status were put into a "bucket" of cases needing further scrutiny, and of those, about a quarter had tea party affiliations.
That we know of. Maybe I'm a bit to cynical but I'd be very surprised if it hasn't happen at least once or twice before.
Huh?
So what happened? Clearly the words used for targeting are political terms.
IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups
I don't see them doing the same for orgs using terms like "progress" or "progressive" which are likewise political terms.
They used those terms because of the explosion of these organizations raising money on things like Facebook, or having booths at Tea Party rallies.. and then no one knowing quite where the money went.
As I said, this is a common problem when there are issues out there that they know people get emotional about and donate, maybe not asking any of the questions they would of typical political or charitable organizations.
Again, the TPers ought to be glad that someone was looking out for them and their money, making sure that they were not defrauded by charlatans pretending to be part of the movement, who were just trying to make a buck.
They used those terms because of the explosion of these organizations raising money on things like Facebook, or having booths at Tea Party rallies.. and then no one knowing quite where the money went.
As I said, this is a common problem when there are issues out there that they know people get emotional about and donate, maybe not asking any of the questions they would of typical political or charitable organizations.
Again, the TPers ought to be glad that someone was looking out for them and their money, making sure that they were not defrauded by charlatans pretending to be part of the movement, who were just trying to make a buck.
By the way, in before some right wing ideologue GOP rep proposes a bill to do some pointless thing about this nonexistent problem. Flanked by all GOP POTUS hopefuls.
Of course everyone would agree that the IRS should not make a particularized effort to go after a series of organizations based on the political affiliation of those organizations.
That is not what happened here.
They used those terms because of the explosion of these organizations raising money on things like Facebook, or having booths at Tea Party rallies.. and then no one knowing quite where the money went.
As I said, this is a common problem when there are issues out there that they know people get emotional about and donate, maybe not asking any of the questions they would of typical political or charitable organizations.
Again, the TPers ought to be glad that someone was looking out for them and their money, making sure that they were not defrauded by charlatans pretending to be part of the movement, who were just trying to make a buck.