[Milton Miteybad]

"Defending tyranny?" Please. You're taking yourself and your questionable understanding of the facts far too seriously here.

I'm correctly pointing out, as others have, that some of these people would fall within well-established criteria for audit anyway. Would 10% so qualify under said guidelines? No, and we agree on that. But some of these people are likely to have been audited in any event, although it would probably be 1/4 to 1/3 of the number actually audited.

[Democrat_media]

Based on the IRS audits conducted in 2012, Americans who earned $50,000 to $100,000 faced an audit rate of just 0.64%,

from what i read of these groups that the IRS was already oppressing and from whom they obtained these member lists, their incomes should fall in that range. these people were not rich but middle class Americans wanting to be involved in the political process. the IRS denied them the right to be exempt from taxes and so they couldn't form. if they were so wealthy then they wouldn't need the tax exempt status .

the rate 10% is almost 20 times the regular rate. and coupled with the fact that the audited were on small lists the IRS was already oppressing then it is very likely the IRS audited them to intimidate them not randomly from the whole population