[ConstantSkeptic]

Uh...no. The IRS is not censoring free speech. Not a single person is being prevented from saying whatever they want to say. The IRS is merely stating that the groups which are too political will not be subsidized by the taxpayers.

If the IRS has gone too far in their interpretation of the corresponding tax code, the affected group can certainly sue.

[Defiant]

Glad you cleared that up, and so glad you signed on here just before the 2012 elections to help steer us in the direction of statism. We could not correct our wayward ways without you to guide us. I would have thought, for example, that using the IRS to harass conservative groups into giving up their First Amendment rights, or requiring them to endure costly litigation to protect them, while liberal groups go scot free, would be some kind of fascist ploy. Now I realize it is just a big misunderstanding.

[smoothsailing]

Uh...no. The IRS is not censoring free speech.

They clearly propose to with new regulations, which signals an escalation on their part. Up until now they have been engaged in delaying, disrupting, obstructing, and chilling free speech allowed by current regulation through a strategy utilizing a variety of tactics. The evidence is abundant and unambiguous.

[Diamond]

Not a single person leftist is being prevented from saying whatever they want to say. The IRS is merely stating that the groups which are too political conservative will not be subsidized by the taxpayers

There, fixed part of it.

I guess if you presume that all money and property belongs to the government in the first place then you might conclude that groups actually using their own money to speak as they see fit is somehow being "subsidized by the taxpayers".