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It appears that they targeted certain political groups, not only the Tea Party but also Pro-Israel and other groups, the responsible people should be punished. Still not sure why any political group would command tax exempt status
ACORN is tax exempt and they only cater to Democrats.
ACORN is tax exempt and they only cater to Democrats.
Wonder what kind of questions they had to answser? Oh, that's right -- their name doesn't smack of patriotism or liberty or supporters of the Constitution.
The IRS should target all 501 (c) 4 organizations.
That some IRS employees targeted some organizations is curious. More will be revealed.
That's really the crux of the issue. These organizations aren't supposed to be political. Yet, Karl Rove's organization is a 501c4 organization and runs political ads. Why should it be tax-exempt?
In the last election cycle, droves of 501c4 organizations, who do have political motivations, have cropped up. Most of those were on the conservative side.
The IRS started targeting Tea Party members, "Patriots" and similar conservatives starting in 2010.
But the IRS' harassment of conservatives expanded way beyond those groups.
As United Press International reports:
U.S. Internal Revenue Service inquiry of conservative groups included those lobbying to "make America a better place to live," new details emerging about the IRS investigation indicated. That lever goes beyond what the IRS admitted Friday, which was that it targeted groups with "Tea Party" or "patriot" in their names, several media outlets reported Monday, based on draft findings from disclosures to congressional investigators by the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration.
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At various points over the past two years, the Cincinnati IRS office, which is in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status, focused on groups making statements that "criticize how the country is being run" and those involved in educating Americans "on the Constitution and Bill of Rights," the draft report cited by The Washington Post indicated.
By June 2011 some IRS specialists were probing applications of groups focusing on "government spending, government debt or taxes [and] education of the public by advocacy/lobbying to 'make America a better place to live,'" the report cited by the Journal indicated.
The inspector general's investigation also found the head of the IRS tax-exempt-organizations division knew as early as June 2011 conservative groups were being inappropriately targeted -- several months before Douglas Shulman, IRS commissioner at the time, denied to a congressional committee the agency was targeting conservative groups, the newspapers said
Liberals should not assume that this is the "other guy's" fight.
The targeting of conservatives under a Democratic administration could switch to a targeting of liberals under a subsequent Republican administration.
I'm not worried about it. All of the groups still got their tax exempt status, didn't they? If you are trying to get a tax exempt status and you are a group educating people that taxes are evil, weeeellll....seriously....what do you expect? It's not like their rights were violated. They didn't have unconstitutional search or seizure. They just got an audit. BIG DEAL. When they are beaten by the cops or have their place of business searched by the FBI, I will then freak out.
I'm not worried about it. All of the groups still got their tax exempt status, didn't they? If you are trying to get a tax exempt status and you are a group educating people that taxes are evil, weeeellll....seriously....what do you expect? It's not like their rights were violated. They didn't have unconstitutional search or seizure. They just got an audit. BIG DEAL. When they are beaten by the cops or have their place of business searched by the FBI, I will then freak out.
Exactly... if you go around parading about how much you don't want to pay taxes, Is it really A shock that they dug deeper to see if you were really paying all the necessary taxes.
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Oh, that's right 
-- their name doesn't smack of patriotism or liberty or supporters of the Constitution.
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