After waiting fifteen months for IRS approval of its tax-exempt status and getting to response, a conservative group reapplied using a liberal-sounding name and got its approval in three weeks.
Working for the Democratic Party: After waiting fifteen months for IRS approval of its tax-exempt status and getting no response, a conservative group reapplied using a liberal-sounding name and got its approval in three weeks.
There are certainly a lot of caveats to this story, but the circumstances are quite interesting, considering all we now know about the IRS’s efforts to harass conservatives.
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Hmm. Maybe I should apply for a grant with a lib-sounding name.
Dad is a barber and hears lots of interesting stories. One is about a guy that got a $350,000 grant and went on a Vegas high roller spree with it, losing it all. He then went to the junk yard, found and water heater and welded some pipes to it, took pictures and declared his water reclamation project just didn’t work.