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| Berton | Mar 10 2014, 07:57 AM Post #1 |
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The IRS’s behavior taxes credulity What’s been said of confession — that it is good for one’s soul but bad for one’s reputation — can also be true of testifying to Congress, so Lois Lerner has chosen to stay silent. Hers, however, is an eloquent silence. The most intrusive and potentially most punitive federal agency has been politicized; the IRS has become an appendage of Barack Obama’s party. Furthermore, congruent with exhortations from some congressional Democrats, it is intensifying its efforts to suffocate groups critical of progressives, by delaying what once was the swift, routine granting of tax-exempt status. So, the IRS, far from repenting of its abusive behavior, is trying to codify the abuses. It hopes to nullify with new rules the existing legal right of 501(c)(4) groups, many of which are conservative, to participate in politics. The proposed rules have drawn more than 140,000 comments, most of them complaints, some from liberals wary of IRS attempts to broadly define “candidate-related political activity” and to narrow the permissible amount of this. Lerner is, so far, the face of this use of government to punish political adversaries. She knows what her IRS unit did and how it intersects with the law, and for a second time she has exercised her constitutional right to remain silent rather than risk self-incrimination. The public has a right to make reasonable inferences from her behavior...... LINK The rules read today exactly as they have read since 1959. Why is it that Obama's IRS have not been able to enforce them today? There are even more questions contained in the OP. |
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| tomdrobin | Mar 11 2014, 12:06 PM Post #2 |
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Punishing political adversaries? Or denying tax exempt status to conservative political groups trying to disguise themselves as "social welfare organizations", so they can hide their donors. |
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| Berton | Mar 11 2014, 07:43 PM Post #3 |
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Only in your simplethink mind do you think that they were not punishing political adversaries. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 11 2014, 09:29 PM Post #4 |
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They also targeted liberal groups. Tax fraud is tax fraud. Conservatives, as we already know from case after case of corporate tax fraud, are simply more adept at it. link link |
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| colo_crawdad | Mar 11 2014, 09:32 PM Post #5 |
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The latter. |
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| Berton | Mar 11 2014, 10:20 PM Post #6 |
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When did you change the subject to tax FRAUD?
The rules read today exactly as they have read since 1959. Why is it that Obama's IRS have not been able to enforce them today? |
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| tomdrobin | Mar 11 2014, 10:28 PM Post #7 |
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Parroting ride wing propaganda sites, or mimicking your adversaries. Ever had an original thought? |
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