Posted on 06/04/2013 5:28:59 AM PDT by grundle
As the IRS attacked Tea Party groups, it left hundreds of leftist activist groups alone. A quick review of just eight of those leftist, tax-exempt activist groups demonstrates the IRS's hypocrisy.
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change enjoys 501(c)4 tax-exempt status. The organization exists, according to its own website, “to amplify the progressive message--to contribute to a grass roots groundswell for progressive policies. Progressives need to redefine ‘common sense’--by reasserting the primacy of the traditional progressive values that resonate with most Americans.”
The group spent $4.7 million in 2009 “redefining” common sense and, according to their IRS form 990, on “advocacy and education about public policy issues.” Americans United for Change directly engaged Republican senators facing reelection in 2008, running television advertisements against them. Naturally, no Democrat complained. Nor did the IRS revoke its 501(c) status.
Ruckus Society
The Ruckus Society is part of the Occupy Movement--and donations to this 501(c)3 organization are tax deductible.
The Ruckus Society provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals through the strategic use of creative, nonviolent direct action.
The Ruckus training offers the manual “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution” and provides suggestions for direct action such as “take over intersections and use for community activities,” give “fake parking tickets on SUV’s,” “Occupy Bank Foreclosed Homes,” and “rip out rancher’s fences” to free livestock. Planning illegal acts is incompatible with 501(c)3 status.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
And Bob The Boob Beckel spouts off on Fox’s “The Five” that the IRS was right in investigating TEA Party and pro-abortion groups because they were involved in politics instead of social welfare.
Funny how none of the George Soros-connected groups had trouble getting their 501 (c) status. I guess flatulent Liberals such as Beckel consider the progressive political agenda to be “social welfare.”
The longer this "investigation" continues , the Conservative voice is supressed as is voter turn out !!
The corruption inherent in any system in which government gives favored status or benefits to any individual or faction is now glaringly apparent.
Shut it all down, disband the IRS, and begin to raise tax revenue in a way that is compatible with American liberty and provides equal protection under the law.
Waco, Ruby Ridge, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, guns for Syria, IRS V Tea Party, DOJ V journalism, Obamacare, House Post Office, insider trading, Iran-contra, Watergate.
Come to think of it Watergate wasn't so bad. Just criminal on criminal crime.
Those others above are crime on innocents. There is a difference.
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Isn’t this morning when the victims of the IRS targeting will be appearing before a House committee? I notice it’s not on C-SPAN’s schedule anywhere.
Maybe not worth carrying, since it will be tougher for the Dems to bring the witnesses onboard their efforts to exonerate the IRS and attack the 501(c) rules.
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