As I said in number 1 this speaks for itself and it is pretty bad. Below
is what I learned from PBS and one of the networks.
But
There are some interesting
facts here. These were not regular 501 (c) 3 tax exempts in which
neither the donor nor the receiver pays taxes on the money transferred.
These were either the 501 (c) 4 or the 527.
The second of these is a purely
political committee which has taxes due and must
reveal its donors. To
qualify for the first category your organization must spend most of its efforts
on public service, i.e. on nonpolitical things. These distinctions
are new because of the Citizens United SCOTUS decision.
If you are in this game you
want to be in the first group 501(c)4. So people would be straining to get there.
Furthermore, since it was the
year of the tea party, there were lots more right side applications than left.
They would have looked at more tea party things even if they had done it
randomly.
But
They admit that they gave extra
focus to right side sounding group names.
But (I love the next two.)
It was mostly in one office in
Cincinnati.
But
That office is the headquarters
for this kind of determination.
But
After Obama got the IG’s
(inspector general) report they fired the head guy at the IRS.
But
He wasn’t there at the time
this stuff happened, he gets to stay for a week, and he was leaving in two
weeks anyway?
But
Even the regular reporters are starting to ask real questions
since the AP incident.
Example: “Mr. President, when did you find out about
these political IRS actions?”
But
That
doesn’t mean that they are going to get answers: In response to the last question he said: “I
got the IG’s report yesterday.” Does he
think that that is cute? I think that it
shows contempt for us and the press.
He said some other stuff too, but he did not answer the question. We have no idea how long he has been sitting on this. If he had been seriously outraged, as he says
he is, then we would have heard about it months ago when those responsible had
been fired.
Am I losing confidence in this man?
Yes. No buts about it.
Nice
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