The I.R.S. - Obama's Gestapo
Not only the I.R.S. - but the Department of Justice too.
The D.O.J. investigating journalists and people who are not pleased with the current regime...
Where is this insane Obamunism leading us?
I don’t know why sometimes posts don’t do PPHs well....
The unfolding IRS scandal is a symptom, not the disease.For decades, campaign-finance reform zealots have sought to limit core political speech through spending limits and disclosure requirements. More recently, they have claimed that it is wrong and dangerous for tax-exempt entities to engage in political speech.
The Obama administration shares these views, especially when conservative, small-government organizations are involved, and the IRS clearly got the message. While the agency must be investigated and reformed, the ultimate cure for these abuses is to unshackle political speech by all groups, including tax-exempt ones, from arbitrary and unconstitutional government regulation.
Beginning in March 2010, the IRS engaged in an unprecedented campaign of harassment against conservative groups, either through denials or delays in approving their tax-exempt-status applications, or through endless and burdensome audits.
In notable contrast, liberal and “progressive” organizations got approvals with remarkable speed. The most conspicuous example involves the Barack H. Obama Foundation, which was approved as tax exempt within a month by the then-head of the IRS tax-exempt branch, Lois Lerner. From media reports and firsthand accounts, we also know that the IRS disproportionately audited donors to conservative causes and leaked confidential tax information concerning conservative groups in violation of federal law.
This IRS politicization is not an isolated problem. It is an inevitable result of the broader efforts to regulate and, in fact, suppress political speech.
The IRS crackdown on tax-exemption approvals for conservative groups was directed at nonprofit social-welfare groups, often called 501(c)(4)s after the Internal Revenue Code section granting them tax-exempt status. Such groups do not have to disclose their donors and are exempt from most taxation, although donations to them generally aren’t tax deductible.
The WSJ had better decide which side they’re on - the statist side or traditional America’s, because their constant promotion of unlimited immigration is the fastest way to totalitarianism I can think of.
The D.O.J. investigating journalists and people who are not pleased with the current regime...
Where is this insane Obamunism leading us?
There is something strange about the timing of all this. Call me a conspiracy nut or what ever.
For a creature of the system to just spill the beens about the misconduct of her office voluntarily is mind boggling to me. Me thinks something else is afoot here. I am wondering if this is a sparkly to hide what was going on with the Saudi that was injured in the recent bombings. He was special enough to garner attention from the White House with a visit from the First Lady and then bam he’s gone. I think the president is getting thrown under the bus by his handlers the Saudis.
NO ONE is trying to stop liberal speech. No one. Not one person. Elites are trying to stop OUR speech....
The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.”
Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall, Chapter 3
The past forcasts the future.
Why is the IRS permitted to unionize?
Right! The treatment is so different when it is a progressive organization, but conservative groups get shunned. I cant believe what a hit our free speech has been taking.