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Posted on 05/10/2013 2:47:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Conservative groups have rejected an Internal Revenue Service apology for unjustifiably scrutinizing tax-exempt conservative groups during the 2012 election cycle. The IRS apology has seemingly validated conservatives' fears of politically motivated regulation.
House Republican leaders, meanwhile, have vowed to investigate.
Lois Lerner, the director the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt organizations, said that organizations had been given additional scrutiny if their applications included the words "Tea Party" or "patriot." The practice originated with "low-level" employees in Cincinnati, according to an Associated Press report.
In a press conference on Friday, Lerner called the actions of these employees "absolutely inappropriate."
"They didn't do it because of any political bias," Lerner said, adding that singling out groups with specific names was an ill-thought-out organizational "shortcut."
"It was an error in judgment and it wasn't appropriate but that's what they did," she said.
"We've now corrected these issues, and we don't expect that any of these will be repeated going forward."
Despite the apology, conservative groups are now seizing on the news, which they say proves their long-standing complaints of mistreatment by the IRS.
"President Obama must also apologize for his administration ignoring repeated complaints by these broad grassroots organizations of harassment by the IRS in 2012, and make concrete and transparent steps today to ensure this never happens again," said Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots.
Tea Party Express founder Sal Russo told ABC News that his group, formed as a PAC, never heard from the IRS but did hear from smaller Tea-Party groups that complained of government scrutiny.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
“And now they’re in charge of enforcing our healthcare.”
Chilling...
Conservative groups have rejected an Internal Revenue Service apology for unjustifiably scrutinizing tax-exempt conservative groups during the 2012 election cycle... Lois Lerner, the director the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt organizations, said that organizations had been given additional scrutiny if their applications included the words "Tea Party" or "patriot." The practice originated with "low-level" employees in Cincinnati...Wasn't that Above Their Pay Grade?
this admin is worse than Nixon, the cover ups, the enemy list, the lies, even Nixon stepped down for the good of the country but he will not because of his inflated massive ego
On page 3...Mitch McConnel calls on the WH to investigate?
WTH? Has he lost his mind?
They were asking for membership lists of groups that were applying for tax exempt status. The purpose of that would be to check the tax returns of the members to see if they were making claims based on contributions to groups that might not actually have been approved yet. Looking for tax liability that they might be able to get more taxes and penalties off of. This is White Hut krap and is illegal as hell. It’s part of Obamuzzie’s effort to squeeze tax money from every turnip in the country. The notion that someone in the White Hut didn’t suggest/approve/advocate this is the deepest kind of horsestuff.
No worries....Mitch McConnell has called on the WH to investigate..(page three of article)......he clearly has lost his freakin mind! (Eye roll)
Do you think someone should bring a guillotine to our capital mall? I’d be interested in watching that unfold.
Mitch’s perspective on “accountability.”
Geesh ... we need new Senators and Representatives in Congress.
I feel like I’m in an effn novel for cryin out loud.
Exactly. The (vast) majority of T.E.A. party patriots are probably home owners, tax payers, law abiding citizens, who are just sick that the direction of the nation they’ve lived in all their lives, has become an unbelieveable wreckage of socialist failings, stacked upon a suppresive media storm of support and propagandism.
And those who don’t recognize it directly... “Good Lord, Henry, look at our power bill... and the insurance says we have more co-payment on this bill we’ve never had to pay before.
I’ve already been charged the “extra” for the 15 minutes (with a $500 penalty to your doc if he doesn’t charge it.) No, not kidding, and I have/had excellent insurance.
BOHICA, bros.
It is real. Internalize it. Plan to change it.
1. 30,000 tax lobbyists--HALF the lobbyists in Washington, DC--fighting for every scrap of a tax loophole. And you get political corruption on a huge scale over this.
2. The result is a tax code so complex that it makes James Joyce's Ulysses easy to read in comparison. Even the IRS can't figure out much of the tax code!
3. The sheer complexity means exorbitant yearly compliance costs, estimated by some economists to exceed US$430 BILLION per year (and climbing fast in each subsequent year).
4. It also encourages the outsourcing of millions of jobs, thousands of factories, and hundreds of corporate headquarters for tax avoidance reasons.
5. It results in (by some estimates) around US$15 TRILLION on American-owned liquid assets sitting in offshore financial centers and other foreign banks for tax avoidance reasons (care to explain all those "banks" in the Cayman Islands, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, and so on?).
6. Government uses the tax code as a political instrument to favor or punish political constituencies as little as ONE taxpaying entity.
7. Because the IRS needs to know intimate details of personal and business financial records in tax return filings, there are potentially serious issues with invasion of privacy.
8. The IRS assumes you're guilty of tax evasion, and you end up having less rights than most common criminals!
#6 especially applies in this case. And when the IRS goes on the warpath against any taxpaying entity, the results can be frightening, to say the least.
As such, it's time to ditch the current income tax code and replace it with something vastly better:
I fear this IRS apology is a Br’er Rabbit ploy.
Only a few days ago Obama said to reject the notion that government can be tyrannical and now here is government tyranny!
RE: Obama said to reject the notion
This use of the words “the notion” has been his stock phrase and he has used and re-used it so many times I lost count.
Expect him to use it again...
The second revolution is near, and these people better pray to God they aren’t identified. They have few friends but many enemies.
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They have neighbors....some of them are we/us.
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The Bill of Rights does double duty as a Hunting License.
over time some will be unlucky
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Investigation only beginning! What a wonderful world freedom brings - even when threatened by the Obama Administration.
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