BREAKING: IRS Leaked Info On Conservatives To Media...

[paulitician]

Boy, this thing just gets worse & worse.

Progressive Group: IRS gave us Conservative groups' Confidential Docs

The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.

The commendable admission lends further evidence to the lengths the IRS went during an election cycle to silence tea party and limited government voices.

ProPublica says the documents the IRS gave them were “not supposed to be made public”:

The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year... In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made six of those public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.)

The group says that "no unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica.”

According to Media Research Center Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor, ProPublica’s financial backers include top progressive donors.

On Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to hold a formal hearing on the IRS conservative targeting scandal. IRS Commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George are slated to testify...

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[B. Kidd]

You know what time it is?

It is SPECIAL PROSECUTOR time.

 

[paulitician]

You know what time is?

It is SPECIAL PROSECUTOR time.

We'll see i guess. This stuff goes to the heart & soul of our Nation. What are we becoming? It's very disturbing.

 

[TemplarKormac]

I am T-1000. I have come back in time to kill John Connor.

Correction.

I have come back in time to kill Obama's presidency.

 

[B. Kidd]

Every IRS agent who participated should not only be fired but also face prosecution for deprivation of rights under color of law.

 

[hjmick]

Just think, these guys will be the enforcement arm of Obamacare... Well, at least 47 of the new tax rules...

 

[paulitician]

Just think, these guys will be the enforcement arm of Obamacare... Well, at least 47 of the new tax rules...

It's a real mess. And some continue to wonder why so many are hostile & wary of Government. Maybe this will give them a new perspective? Hope so.

 

[B. Kidd]

Just think, these guys will be the enforcement arm of Obamacare... Well, at least 47 of the new tax rules...

(This point is worth, at the minimum, at least 3 EEKs'.)

 

[nitroz]

Churches shouldn't be tax exempt anyway.

 

[paulitician]

Churches shouldn't be tax exempt anyway.

Is that gonna be your defense? Pretty lame. Try again.

 

[nitroz]

Churches shouldn't be tax exempt anyway.

Is that gonna be your defense? Pretty lame. Try again.

Nope.

 

[boedicca]

Everything Obama touches involves Abuse of Power.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Churches shouldn't be tax exempt anyway.

Is that gonna be your defense? Pretty lame. Try again.

Nope.

Are you suggesting we profile people based on religion? That sir/madam is deplorable!

 

[nitroz]

btw, don't use biased links.

 

[nitroz]

Is that gonna be your defense? Pretty lame. Try again.

Nope.

Are you suggesting we profile people based on religion? That sir/madam is deplorable!

Nah.

I'm saying those tax exemptions should not exist in the first place.
I could care less about who/where those documents went because tax exemption is a privilege, not a right.


And exemptions should be challenged. If someone breaks the rules, bye bye tax exemption.

 

[paulitician]

Nope.

Are you suggesting we profile people based on religion? That sir/madam is deplorable!

Nah.

I'm saying those tax exemptions should not exist in the first place.
I could care less about who/where those documents went because tax exemption is a privilege, not a right.


And exemptions should be challenged. If someone breaks the rules, bye bye tax exemption.

Different topic for a different thread. You're free to start your own thread on that topic. Have at it.

 

[nitroz]

Are you suggesting we profile people based on religion? That sir/madam is deplorable!

Nah.

I'm saying those tax exemptions should not exist in the first place.
I could care less about who/where those documents went because tax exemption is a privilege, not a right.


And exemptions should be challenged. If someone breaks the rules, bye bye tax exemption.

Different topic for a different thread. You're free to start your own thread on that topic. Have at it.

Eh, My final statement.

IRS is at fault.
blah blah blah

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

It's called TYRANNY. A tyrannical government all condoned by the leftist kooks and their media whores for POWER.

 

[Londoner]

This is another manufactured scandal by Movement Conservativism.

It says in the wording of the statute, very clearly, that you cannot get tax exempt status if your function is primarily political. None of these political groups deserve tax exempt status.

Again, if your primary purpose is to promote the advancement of a political cause or group, you absolutely and categorically do not qualify for this tax exempt status.

Starting in late 2009 there was an explosion of activist conservative political groups. They all used the words Tea Party or freedom in the title, And they all claimed to be promoting the general welfare so that they could get the tax-exempt status. Meaning: they claimed not to have a political affiliation.

When it was revealed that they were purely political, and aligned exclusively with rightwing political goals, they should have been denied access to the tax exempt status.

Instead of being denied tax-exempt status, as was legally required, the IRS ultimately approved their tax exempt status, and now the entire country subsidizes the conservative political movement.

Why were they targeted for additional scrutiny? Given the massive influx of conservative groups that applied for this tax exempt status, The IRS required a filtering protocol in order to review all of the new groups applying for this tax-exempt status. The filtering protocol was, logically, tea party (because the left doesn't have enough of these groups save one or two that supported Obama. This is one area where the left really lags behind because corporations refuse to support them en mass. Why is this so? Because the left wants to raise taxes on corporations. Therefore the left simply doesn't have the financial ammunition to compete in this particular area of electoral manipulation)

The sad part is that the Republicans have effectively used this manufactured scandal to game the system and ensure that their political activist groups get a tax exempt status that they do not deserve.

The reason that there are no similar search tools or filtering protocols for leftwing political groups is because they are numbered in the single digits. Sadly, the left doesn't have the corporate support to form an equivalent number of these political activist groups.

Now, tragically, the IRS will have even less power to deny tax exempt status to groups who don't deserve it. The rightwing now has exactly what it wants: a battle cry for the next election. Well played, well played!

 

[B. Kidd]

This is another manufactured scandal by Movement Conservativism.

Sadly, the left doesn't have the corporate support to form an equivalent number of these political activist groups.

I guess you have never checked out the corporate donor list for Obama.