I would suggest that the IRS should have the right to look into certain groups who are known to misuse their tax-exempt status.
The notion that Obama ordered this is completely laughable.
Are we to begin living in fear of being investigated by partisan hacks every inch of the way?
Does anyone else think that perhaps, all the Republican talk about being champions of the Constitution is just a cover for them getting their way through bullying and fascist attacks?
But, But, BUT CRABBIE, WHAT ABOUT THIS????
Not a Smidgen: IRS Pays $50,000 Settlement for Giving Conservative Tax Info to Political Opponent
Not a Smidgen: IRS Pays $50,000 Settlement for Giving Conservative Tax Info to Political Opponent - Katie Pavlich
BTW, did you start looking for ALL my Hitler references?....
It's more unfounded crap. The IRS NEVER ADMITTED to any intentional targeting of NOM, the claim that the IRS admitted to "wrong doing" was an unsubstantiated claim made by NOM, itself.
IRS Reimburses NOM $50,000 In Legal Fees And Expenses, NOM Claims 'IRS Admits Wrongdoing'
After losing every single marriage case and every single money laundering and campaign finance case they've fought, after holding a March for Marriage attended by 2000 people or less, the leadership at the National Organization For Marriage are grasping onto anything they can tweak into a "win" just to prove to their supporters they're not facing doom. Sadly, when the only "win" you can find is getting an expense check in the mail from the federal government, well, you're facing doom.
Today the National Organization For Marriage is touting an agreement the IRS has made to them, following a federal judge's ruling that not only slammed NOM but did so rather vociferously.
As The New Civil Rights Movement reported, U.S. District Court Judge James C. Cacheris in his June 3 ruling against NOM used terms like, “NOM has failed to produce a shred of proof,” NOM’s argument “misses the mark,” is “unconvincing,” “is unpersuasive,” and “[t]o find that NOM could prevail from this scintilla of evidence … is not appropriate.”
In 2012, in response to a Freedom of Information request, an IRS employee made a mistake and provided what NOM is calling an LGBT activist an un-redacted list of NOM's donors. The employee should have first redacted the names, addresses, and dollar amounts the donors (one of whom being a Mitt Romney Super PAC) made to NOM.
For two years NOM has tried to claim they are in the same (non-existent) boat as Tea Party groups that were challenged by the IRS after trying to claim they were entitled to a tax-exempt status (they are not -- read the law.) NOM conflated their victim status in a brazen attempt to gain favor with the radical and religious right, and given their occasional invites to paperer on Fox News, it worked.
But in truth, as a federal court judge ruled, the IRS was not attempting war on NOM, one employee merely made a mistake. NOM lost two of the three counts of its case last month, and the third count -- reimbursement of expenses, NOM, in its court filing, had requested about $58,000. Today the IRS agreed to $50,000 -- less than NOM wanted -- but NOM is wrongly claiming a win.
If a tree falls on your house and you repair your house and your insurance company sends you a check for the expenses associated with that event -- say, fixing the roof, perhaps a few nights in a hotel, and maybe replacement of some damaged clothing or furniture -- you don't say Mother Nature admitted "wrongdoing." You breathe a sigh of relief that an event (act of God, anyone?) didn't cost you more than time, energy, and emotional upset.
IRS Reimburses NOM $50,000 In Legal Fees And Expenses, NOM Claims 'IRS Admits Wrongdoing' - The New Civil Rights Movement
