Redwingtom
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IRS Elephant Finally Revealed
From Wednesday's testimonies:
Quote:Koskinen also explained that the IRS had implemented all nine recommendations of the inspector general's report that first flagged the so-called targeting scandal. One of those recommendations was to clear up an unacceptable backlog in processing applications for tax-exempt status from groups that had been waiting months.
There was a simple way to clear that logjam: All any group had to do to be granted tax-exempt status as a social welfare nonprofit under section 501©4 of the U.S. tax code was to swear that it was, in fact, primarily engaged in social welfare work. To make it easy, the IRS decided that groups had to pledge they would confine their political activity to less than 40 percent of their work.
Several dozen did so, but 19 declined, Koskinen said.
What that suggests to proponents of increased campaign finance disclosure is that such groups are less interested in pursuing social welfare and more interested in pursuing partisan politics -- while keeping their donors hidden.
Quote:The number of supposed social welfare groups ducking a pledge to do social welfare work highlights the underlying problem that the IRS bungled so terribly in addressing: Many of these groups were abusing the rules, and the vast majority of them were conservative (though liberals are trying to catch up).
According to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, conservative social welfare nonprofits and other non-disclosing groups poured some $260 million into the 2012 elections, compared to $35 million from their liberal counterparts.
Quote:Although the IRS inspector general found that those processing tax-exempt applications erred in screening for names of groups that sounded political -- rather than screening for actual political activity -- the ratio of conservative to liberal groups that were flagged for additional scrutiny in 2010, when the scandal began, was probably not too far off the ratio of conservative to liberal independent spending in the last election. While the inspector general found that the IRS flagged 298 groups for added scrutiny overall, about 20 of them were liberal and only about one-third of them were conservative.
Darrell Issa Hearing Reveals IRS-Targeted Groups Prefer To Be Political
(This post was last modified: 03-28-2014 09:36 AM by Redwingtom.)
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Jerry Falwell
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RE: IRS Elephant Finally Revealed
Center for Responsive Politics Liberals
http://www.opensecrets.org/about/board.php
Quote:Sonia Jarvis, Member. Visiting Professor of "Equality and Justice in America" in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College - The City University of New York.
Ellen S. Miller, Member. Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation. Served as CRP's executive director from 1984-1996.
And then this, which proves your mantra is a load of crap:
http://visiontoamerica.com/16792/100-per...bamas-irs/
Quote:100% of the audits on existing 501©(4) groups were conducted against conservative groups
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Redwingtom
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RE: IRS Elephant Finally Revealed
Jerry, it doesn't prove squat without knowing the number that was actually audited. Most of the groups were conservative to begin with and if they audited 1, 2 or even 3, that doesn't prove anything if 80% of them are conservative...it completely falls within the realm of statistical probability.
And the title in that link isn't even close to accurate...or to be less kind, is total bull****.
Quote:100 Percent of Conservative 501©(4) Groups Were Audited by Obama's IRS
Every Conservative 501©(4) group was audited? Not possible dude. The IRS doesn't have that much manpower. And Obama doesn't run the IRS. Sorry to burst your bubble.
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RE: IRS Elephant Finally Revealed
(03-28-2014 11:24 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Quote:100 Percent of Conservative 501©(4) Groups Were Audited by Obama's IRS
Every Conservative 501©(4) group was audited? Not possible dude. The IRS doesn't have that much manpower. And Obama doesn't run the IRS. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Tom if a guy runs around beating up people who are only members of a certain race it's not the same as beating up all people of that race yet I think we could all agree race it probably the driving factor.
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