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Posted on 09/15/2006 7:35:38 PM PDT by freepatriot32
WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service has revoked the tax-exempt status of the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue West for prohibited political activity during the 2004 election.
President Troy Newman said the Wichita, Kan., group, now known as Operation Rescue, relinquished its charitable status and reorganized more than a year ago.
"We gave it back. We didn't fight any sort of deal," he said.
The laws that permit some organizations to organize as tax-exempt entities also bar them from participating in or intervening in elections, including advocating for or against any candidate.
The IRS revoked the group's tax-exempt status last week, and it was reported Friday by The New York Times.
The tax agency said earlier this year that it found violations in three of four churches, charities and other civic groups suspected of running afoul of restraints on political activity. It did not identify any of those organizations.
Most of those examinations found only a single, isolated incident of prohibited campaign activity. In a few cases, they found flagrant violations of the law.
IRS Commissioner Mark Everson called the amount of political intervention discovered through their examinations "disturbing" for the impact it could have on the integrity of churches and charities.
The examinations looked at only a tiny fraction of the more than 1 million tax-exempt groups organized under section 501(c)(3) of the tax law.
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Obviously not.
With just a little bit of luck, MADD will be next.
But it is OK for Clintonistas and RATs to go to black churches and spew the pooolitiks!
"But it is OK for Clintonistas and RATs to go to black churches and spew the pooolitiks!"
That's different.
You just don't understand.
Well, that's a weak start. Now, how about the NEA, the AFL, AFSCME, the United Food, Commercial group, the Teamsters and all the other thug-o-crat groups who worship Her Thighness, Nancy Baloney, the Swimmer, John F'n, Algore u.s.w. (Nazi for and so forth).
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All I can say is "Stay oudda Bushes!"
Isn't it time for the Republicans to put someone in charge of the IRS who will enforce the laws and regulations equally?
You could expect this kind of blatant unfairness under clinton. But why is it continuing under Bush?
Apparently the WH is indifferent to this. The rule is watch what they do, not what they say.
One more reason to support tax reform.
Or Pacifica Radio (which often has Green Party campaign literature "handouts" in their lobby in addition to on air advocacy).
okay, but when will we see the irs bust a black church that claims 401(c)(3) but hosts demorats to give political speeches? when pigs fly
This is actually a good thing. Now the group is free to do what it wants.
What we need is a scorched earth policy to rigidly enforce these rules. Maybe a double-blind analysis so you don't know the leanings of the target under investigation. There must be some way to ensure Dems are held to the same standards as the GOP.
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