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It is hilarious we're back at Lanza given the recent bombing was Muslims, and the IRS building was a leftist.
That said, 007 needs serious help...
That said, 007 needs serious help...
For you folks who support profiling, the IRS was right to scrutinize Tea Party!
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There's nutcases and extremists of every stripe.
Show me where I defended the IRS. Yeah, you can't.
007
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your liberalism, done.
All liberals have murderous intent.
007
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Wrong. Lanza was a liberal.
The Boston bombing was comitted by liberals.
The IRS releasing the NRA of Tea Party Groups members was liberal.
Note you liberal fanatics ignore that little inconvienient fact
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He's a troll.
007
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You would say that, typical liberal response when their dogma is defeated by logic.
Stupid, low info, violent, intolerant liberal baby killer.
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PostmodernProphet
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really?.....who did the IRS target in 2000-2008?......1992-2000?.....
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
there is a difference between having an investigation whether an observed incidence violated an already granted tax-exempt status and issuing a blanket denial or delay of tax exempt status to a particular group based on their ideology......would your reaction be the same if the IRS took the same approach to groups that had applications including the words "undocumented workers" and "voter registration"?........
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christiefan915 post#13:
While Republicans attack the Obama administration over some IRS agents auditing conservative groups with the words "Tea Party" and "patriot" in their names, they weren't particularly outraged when the IRS targeted liberal groups during President George W. Bush's presidency, noted Salon.com.
“I wish there was more GOP interest when I raised the same issue during the Bush administration, where they audited a progressive church in my district in what look liked a very selective way,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told MSNBC on Monday (video below). One of the liberal groups targeted by the IRS under the Bush administration was All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, reported the Los Angeles Times.
The IRS actually threatened to revoke the church's tax-emption because Pastor George Regas said: ‘Mr. President, your doctrine of preemptive war is a failed doctrine," on the Sunday before the 2004 election. Ironically, conservative churches that actively campaigned for President Bush in 2004 were not audited by the IRS, reported the New York Times.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the IRS also went after the NAACP after they said Bush was the first president since Herbert Hoover not to address the organization.
In 2006, the IRS investigated the liberal environmental group Greenpeace after a conservative group called "Public Interest Watch," which had financial ties to Exxon, pushed for an investigation, reported Democracy Now.
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evince post#6
After filing four freedom-of-information requests, NAACP lawyers discovered that far more than two members of Congress called for an investigation and that all were Republicans.
Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and Susan Collins (Maine) called for the investigation.
Others included Rep. Jo Ann S. Davis (R-Va.) and then-Rep. Larry Combest (R-Tex.). Former GOP representatives Joe Scarborough of Florida, who now hosts a talk show, and Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., currently governor of Maryland, also requested a probe.[/QUOTE]
Great find evince!
IRS Ends 2-Year Probe Of NAACP's Tax Status
Washington Post
Friday, September 1, 2006
Nearly two years after a controversial decision to investigate the NAACP for criticizing President Bush during the 2004 presidential campaign, the Internal Revenue Service has ruled that the remarks did not violate the group's tax-exempt status.
"It was an enormous threat," NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said of the investigation. The opposite outcome, he said, "would have reduced our income remarkably."
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Bond reiterated his belief that the investigation was politically motivated. He said the decision, received by the NAACP on Aug. 9, "meant that they thought they had harassed us enough and they could stop."
In a response to lawmakers who expressed outrage over the investigation in 2004, IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson said the agency's examinations are based on tax law, not partisanship.
The commissioner said the investigation of the NAACP was undertaken because two congressional leaders, whom he declined to name, requested it. They were unhappy because Bond criticized Bush in a speech in July 2004, saying his administration preached racial neutrality and practiced racial division.
"They write a new constitution of Iraq and they ignore the Constitution at home," Bond said.
After filing four freedom-of-information requests, NAACP lawyers discovered that far more than two members of Congress called for an investigation and that all were Republicans.
Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and Susan Collins (Maine) called for the investigation.
Others included Rep. Jo Ann S. Davis (R-Va.) and then-Rep. Larry Combest (R-Tex.). Former GOP representatives Joe Scarborough of Florida, who now hosts a talk show, and Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., currently governor of Maryland, also requested a probe.
PostmodernProphet
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none of that answers my question.....those were investigations regarding whether observed conduct violated already granted status......the claim is that the IRS has previously done what has just occurred......who did they do it to before?.........
Bfgrn
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Obfuscation. Maybe you should use 'but did they do it on a Tuesday?'
007
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Did the IRS release confidential information to spurious groups before.
I note you fanatical liberal totalitarians keep ignoring that little tidbit.
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Liberal group Progress Texas also received extra IRS scrutiny
A liberal group on Wednesday said it had faced the same level of scrutiny from the IRS that was applied to tea party groups.
“Progress Texas and the Tea Party strongly disagree on the role of government,” the group’s executive director, Ed Espinoza, said in a statement. “Yet, when we applied for tax-exempt status, Progress Texas received the same type of additional scrutiny that Tea Party groups are complaining about. The similar treatment indicates the IRS was likely addressing a flood of 501c4 applications after Citizens United, and undermines the paranoid notion that Tea Party groups were singled out.”
An IRS letter (PDF) published by Progress Texas online Thursday showed the liberal group was given 22 days to respond to a list of 21 questions. Some of the questions included up to nine sub-questions.
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We're the confidential answers passed to a spurious partisan organization?
Was the investigation timed to interfere with election funding of opposition candidates?
No, ok.
Stfu.
007
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Your idea of lies would be the truth if it disagrees with your totalitarian dogma!
http://www.propublica.org/article/i...ed-tea-party-also-disclosed-confidential-docs
Answer this totalitarian fanatic!!
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The purpose of the tax exempt status is to raise funds for donation to campaigns or to provide media access via purchased airtime to counter liberal lies and attack ads.
This action prevented them from raising monies to be used legally to inform the voters.
That is the purpose of political fundraising, not for profit groups.
Are you really that stupid?
The IRS actions were designed to cut off funding to opposition candidates.
The release of names, addresses, children's names etc was incitement to violence against ordinary American families who have the temerity to defy the liberal bosses.