The IRS admitted today that it targeted conservative political organizations during the 2012 election campaign.
The IRS admitted today that it targeted conservative political organizations during the 2012 election campaign.
Organizations were singled out because they included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups. In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.
The IRS also claimed that this action was “initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias.” And I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell them.
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The IRS admitted today that it targeted conservative political organizations during the 2012 election campaign.
Organizations were singled out because they included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups. In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.
The IRS also claimed that this action was “initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias.” And I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell them.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
And people wonder why there is skepticism of the government, heads should roll.
What other big government program could screw people over based on party affiliation, hmmm. It looks like your voter records show that your doctor wont be able to see you this month or the next and that pace maker you want? Better hope you last until the next election when you can prove your value to society.
A clear example of abuse of power.
And who has been fired or discipined for interfering with the rights of the people who were forming these the political organizations? And it just so happens that these organizations are at odds with the current administration. How will they be compensated for the usurping or interfering with their rights?
Wasn’t it just last weekend that Obama told us to reject the voices warning of government tyranny?
“We have never been a people to place all of our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn’t want to. But we don’t think the government is the source of all our problems, either.”
He should try talking to the organizations that his IRS was harassing. They may have a differing opinion, and an opinion formulated from experience.
And who is he to tell us what we should or should not reject? Our father or boss?
Isn’t the idea behind America that We the People get to choose for ourselves what to accept and what to reject; what to purchase and what to pass up, and what price to pay, and what insurance coverage we want and what we don’t want covered? The free market, freedom of choice, and freedom of expression are some basic foundations that made this country great. Just ask Alexis De Tocqueville; he wrote a whole book to explain these concepts to Europe.
These three concepts are why Elon Musk came to America, because “It is where great things are possible.”
Unless a tyrannical government – even its “low-level employees” – prevents it.
Good point about Ovomit’s tyranny statement.