Posted on 07/30/2013 3:18:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status were more closely scrutinized by the Internal Revenue Service than their progressive counterparts, according to a report Tuesday by House Republican investigators.
Tea party and other conservative groups were, on average, asked three times as many questions as progressive groups, said the report by Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee. Conservative groups were less likely to be approved for tax-exempt status and more likely to have their applications delayed, the report said.
The IRS has been under siege since May when agency officials acknowledged that agents working in a Cincinnati office had improperly targeted tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. The IRS has since released documents suggesting that progressive groups may have been targeted, too. …
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Isn’t this what the racists at the DOJ like to call “Disparate Outcomes?”
more than liberals?
what a bunch of moroons
And the Stupid Party earns its name once again.
firm grasp on reality there huh?
As evidenced by everything they do and say.
I guess there is a reason its the party of Juan McQueeg.
They just figured this out?
Loooooosers.
< / spel chek >
They vet the enemy and he is us.
Boy these guys are sharp!
Sharp as bowling balls!
And SO quick of mind too!
Well D’oh , the IRS is part of the Democrat Party
Someone pointed out that 4 progressive groups were ‘targeted’ but that ALL of them had conservative sounding name.... So in fact the IRS was ONLY targeting conservative groups.
and leftists are always trying to make fake groups that sound conservative for a variety of reasons.
It was part of the communist game plan in the 50’s and early 60’s...
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