Posted on 05/11/2013 5:28:27 AM PDT by tobyhill
The Internal Revenue Service on Friday apologized for targeting groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, confirming long-standing accusations by some conservatives that their applications for tax-exempt status were being improperly delayed and scrutinized.
Lois G. Lerner, the IRS official who oversees tax-exempt groups, said the “absolutely inappropriate” actions by “front-line people” were not driven by partisan motives.
Rather, Lerner said, they were a misguided effort to come up with an efficient means of dealing with a flood of applications from organizations seeking tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012.
During that period, about 75 groups were selected for extra inquiry — including burdensome questionnaires and, in some cases, improper requests for the names of their donors — simply because of the words in their names, she said in a conference call with reporters.
They constituted about one-quarter of the 300 groups who were flagged for additional analysis by employees of the IRS tax-exempt unit’s main office in Cincinnati.
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When the end justifies the means, POWER is the ultimate good. Murder is prohibited in the Ten Commandments—but to the LEFT, the Bible is a target of ridicule and derision. Murder is excusable if it promotes SOCIAL JUSTICE (read control by the elitist oligarchy). To the LEFT, the ultimate damnable crime was Nixon’s—that is, interfering with the inexorable dismantling of the United States. Resistance is a crime; murder is not.
This government is the enemy of the American people; that is why they are stockpiling ammunition.
The I.R.S. must not flinch from its duty to enforce the tax code and root out political operatives who are abusing the law and conning taxpayers and voters.
How sanctimonious for the Slimes to say that!!! Fact is that the large majority of "political operatives who are abusing the law and conning taxpayers and voters" are on the Left! But everyone knows that those individuals and groups will be getting their IRS approval from the Obama administration with no questions asked.
Of course, the 'Rats know how to play this game of harassing the political opposition with the IRS really well. It's in their DNA. It likely started with the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration where one of the most prominent and wealthiest adversaries of the New Deal, publisher Moses Annenberg of the Philadelphia Inquirer, was locked up for a number of years. (Even the WaPo mentions FDR as historical background for the posted story.)
Yet the 'Rats have the gall to claim that they are the party of civil liberties!
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