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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Urges IRS to Target Turning Point USA’s Tax-Exempt Status
NewsBusters ^ | 1/19/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 01/19/2021 1:18:33 PM PST by JV3MRC

It looks as if the government is returning to its old habits of trying to exploit the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to attack conservative nonprofits.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is urging IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig “to review the tax-exempt status of Turning Point USA [TPUSA],” according to CNBC. The reason for this push was asinine: “Whitehouse said [in a letter that] the nonprofit student group should have its tax-exempt status reviewed because he believes they broke Covid regulations when it reportedly hosted two large events in Florida.” Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is president of the group. Kirk is also a member on the board of advisors for the MRC’s Free Speech America project.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; charliekirk; irs; sheldonwhitehouse; turningpointusa
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1 posted on 01/19/2021 1:18:33 PM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

no dissent. resistance is futile.

see you in the camps.


2 posted on 01/19/2021 1:19:58 PM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: JV3MRC

I thought “covid regulations” were based on state or local guidelines (or edicts or ordinances). What jurisdiction could the IRS have on someone for covid infractions?


3 posted on 01/19/2021 1:20:39 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: joshua c

Save a slice of bread for me.


4 posted on 01/19/2021 1:20:44 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: JV3MRC

Using the IRS to shakedown political opponents wonder if Lois Lerner is still around as a “non partisan” voice to head the investigation


5 posted on 01/19/2021 1:22:10 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: JV3MRC

NewsBusters us just piling on now. C’mon man.


6 posted on 01/19/2021 1:23:57 PM PST by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Huh?


7 posted on 01/19/2021 1:27:08 PM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Target all the LEFT winds groups CRUZ exposed tied to this slimebag during the Barret hearing.


8 posted on 01/19/2021 1:28:43 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: JV3MRC

Ha Ha. Turning Point is GOPe. Good riddance to them. See what trying to be the reasonable right gets you Charlie “original never trumper” Kirk?


9 posted on 01/19/2021 1:30:28 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: JV3MRC

THIS is what this d-bag does with his Senatorial time and power?????????????? Wild guess: “They” have dirt on this slimeball, and have told him to push this. I am truly shocked at the state of our once great nation.


10 posted on 01/19/2021 1:36:47 PM PST by Pigsley
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To: NEMDF

None. This is Whitehouse being a conservative-hating democRAT. Simple as that.


11 posted on 01/19/2021 1:39:07 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: joshua c

Yep.

Whitehouse is assho.


12 posted on 01/19/2021 1:44:00 PM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: joshua c

I remember the days whether to put China on Most Favored status or not, now it is ourselves who are off the list!


13 posted on 01/19/2021 1:44:07 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JV3MRC

Geez not even in office yet and they want to weaponize the IRS...


14 posted on 01/19/2021 1:45:02 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: JV3MRC

the nonprofit student group should have its tax-exempt status reviewed because he believes they broke Covid regulations...

I’d like to see the line in the tax code that would trigger revocation of tax exempt status based on Covid.


15 posted on 01/19/2021 1:46:54 PM PST by Flick Lives (“ Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: JV3MRC

According to our liberal friends, where two or more are gathered to discuss issues effecting our country, you have a super-spreader event


16 posted on 01/19/2021 1:52:13 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: JV3MRC

Can we start a list of suspect Lib tax-exempt organizations?


17 posted on 01/19/2021 1:58:34 PM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: JV3MRC

Is there anything in general tax codes that mention this kind of situation? If we didn’t have the China Virus situation, what would Sen. Outhouse have come up with to silence a group he doesn’t like? Racism, sexism, one of the phobias?


18 posted on 01/19/2021 2:07:36 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Pigsley

“THIS is what this d-bag does with his Senatorial time and power??”

I am not a violent but this one person I would like to punch in the face. He just has that demeanor about him.


19 posted on 01/19/2021 2:10:57 PM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: JV3MRC

Some need a kick in the teeth.


20 posted on 01/19/2021 2:40:55 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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