Why it's better to shoot Proglodytes rather than allow them to hold power #7,239

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Newsjock (9,843 posts)

IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups

 Source: Associated Press

The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
 
Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews.
 
Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/irs-apologizes-targeting-conservative-groups

TheDebbieDee (8,358 posts)

1. What prompted this woman to apologize for the IRS taking a closer

look at suspected tax cheats? That's what they're supposed to do!

premium (998 posts)

9. What if they'd been targeting the NAACP, or the ACLU,

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or Planned Parenthood, would you still be saying the same thing?
Targeting a certain political belief, whether liberal or conservative, is plain wrong and shouldn't be tolerated.
 
BTW, no where in the story did they say that the investigations had anything to do with tax cheats.
 Did you even bother to read the story?

premium (998 posts)

20. I'm quite sure that the IRS, under Nixon, Raygun, Bush,

did target liberal org., but I agree with you, targeting a group or org. because of their political beliefs is just plain wrong and stinks to high heaven of McCarthyism.

OnyxCollie (6,496 posts)

2. Koch-sponsored propaganda outfits

must not be deprived of their "right" to substitute taxable issue advertising for tax-exempt image advertising at no cost.
 
Please accept our apologies!

blackspade (2,401 posts)

5. Oh Please.

So where is the apology for targeting 'left' leaning groups?

Chirp, Chirp.....

Proglodytes can't be tax cheats.

They don't pay taxes, they live off of other people's taxes.

former9thward (6,286 posts)

15. Who on the left is being targeted?

I have never seen a group say that it was being targeted.

Sunlei (2,069 posts)

6. someone should take a look at the thousands of tax-free political "charities"

I bet most are fronts for the RW wealthy so they can "donate" to their personal Gov. hate-fest- and get a huge tax deducation for donating to a "charity". And get their buddies and the little minions huge paychecks with great benefits.

Dollface (1,428 posts)

11. That is who they were looking at. So-called social welfare organizations under IRC section 501(c)(4)

They say they're providing information to the public but it is blatant propaganda. The groups being investigated are more like lobbying groups and donations to them should not be tax deductible.

russspeakeasy (5,700 posts)

8. Take a look at the church's

Do tell...

JEB (571 posts)

10. Well, a very large portion of the so called CONservative movement

is a money grubbing enterprise. The remaining portion is bowel movement.

Blue_Tires (31,526 posts)

18. I guess the IRS was getting a little too close to deciphering

the right wing's byzantine system of collecting/funneling/washing/dispersing perfectly "legal" campaign and PAC funds; so the RW shadow groups make a call to their minions in congress to tell the IRS to drop it and apologize or else...

kestrel91316 (45,294 posts)

22. I see nothing wrong with targeting groups that are totally opposed to the very concept of taxation.

That would be the teabaggers, libertarians, and probably most republicans these days.
 
They are, after all, more likely to cheat - because they feel taxes are evil.

OK, so let's allow the cops to search the home of everyone that opposes drug laws.

Seeking Serenity (1,844 posts)

23. The fail is strong in this post

kestrel91316 (45,294 posts)

25. Nope. They're been targeting the poor for years, hounding many to bankruptcy and suicide.

Time for the shoe to be on the other foot.

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Shoot a Democrat.

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I am more and more convinced this is the mainstream part of the dem party now and is a scary thought.

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kestrel91316 (45,294 posts)

22. I see nothing wrong with targeting groups that are totally opposed to the very concept of taxation.

That would be the teabaggers, libertarians, and probably most republicans these days.
 
They are, after all, more likely to cheat - because they feel taxes are evil.

Yo dummie? I got one question for you. How much did you pay in federal and state income taxes last year? Did you get money back that you didn't pay in? If so, then STFU!!!!!

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kestrel91316 (45,294 posts)

25. Nope. They're been targeting the poor for years, hounding many to bankruptcy and suicide.

Time for the shoe to be on the other foot.

Kestrel Numbers, get over here and defend this stupid statement of colossal ignorance. How do you hound the poor, who have nothing, to bankruptcy?

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Why it's better to shoot Proglodytes rather than allow them to hold power

 

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Kestrel Numbers hasn't shown up yet? 

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It's coming. They know it. No, not the Duchebags, the democrat party members in good standing.

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