You are referring to incidents that occurred a decade or more ago, I presume, since this was not true three or four years ago. Yes, that was bad then. It does not justify their recent decisions.
IRS Targeting Right Wing Groups
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You are referring to incidents that occurred a decade or more ago, I presume, since this was not true three or four years ago. Yes, that was bad then. It does not justify their recent decisions.
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The law says that this should not be their primary purpose, I assume.
Besides, the IRS did not say that they could not influence elections.
All the IRS did was take time to examine their applications.
Is the the Tea Party asking for an increase of the IRS budget so that the IRS hire more staff to examine applications faster, OR does the Tea Party want their applications to be rubber stamped without research being done, perhaps because they are pressuring to be allowed to set up fronts to do things with a nonprofit status that they should not be allowed to do?
Besides, the IRS did not say that they could not influence elections.
All the IRS did was take time to examine their applications.
Is the the Tea Party asking for an increase of the IRS budget so that the IRS hire more staff to examine applications faster, OR does the Tea Party want their applications to be rubber stamped without research being done, perhaps because they are pressuring to be allowed to set up fronts to do things with a nonprofit status that they should not be allowed to do?
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no I am not.
Prove to me that the IRS is has not targeted liberal political nonprofit applications recently?
You are like an NBA ref that rewards floppers for flopping.
You're kidding, right? I've seen versions of this on the Colbert Report, on various news sites, various blogs, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501c4#501.28c.29.284.29
All major media stories are reporting the opposite. For example:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/14/irs-tea-party-progressive-groups/2158831/
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Are you a lawyer, with a specialty in nonprofit tax law? How are you sure you know exactly what the law is on this?
Why do you think he must have known?
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I did not see any proof of what I asked to be proved in your evidence.
Please highlight the quote of the proof.
Are we pulling out credentials now? Nope, I'm not a lawyer, just a layman who reads sites that regularly talk about these things.
Now, whats your basis for your claims that these activities are illegal?
The article mentions several examples of progressive organizations that had straight-forward approvals. If you can't or won't read, not my problem.
How about your link that liberal groups were targeted?
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Mr. Colbert is an expert in nonprofit tax law ? awesome.
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This is not proof. Your evidence does not prove what you think it proves.
Again, quote the statement that you think is proof.
The press makes a sensationalist buzz leading to an unsupported false conclusion, and your proof is the media buzz? awesome.