[Political Junkie Too]

NAACP Interim President and CEO Dennis Hayes has charged that the IRS investigation, which was officially launched on Oct. 8, apparently in response to complaints filed by two congressmen, was "clearly motivated by partisan politics." An NAACP statement declared that the organization "has rejected the IRS's premise that Bond's speech constituted prohibited campaign intervention."

What's the line about staying quiet while "they" [the IRS, in this case] go after everyone else, only to have no one left to defend you when "they" come looking for you?

-PJ

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What's the line about staying quiet while "they" [the IRS, in this case] go after everyone else, only to have no one left to defend you when "they" come looking for you?

Look, the Income Tax charitable deduction concept is the only reason the NAACP is subject to this harassment, and it is the only reason a Baptist church might be considered culpable (as opposed to possibly unwise) for explicitly urging its parishoners to vote for or against particular candidates.

The deductable contribution puts the government in the business of deciding what is "charitable" or "educational" - and what is "political."

Neither the flat tax nor the national sales tax suffers from that constitutional infirmity. And either would be preferable to what we have now.