The IRS Targeted Conservatives Because It Could

Reason Magazine's Hit & Run ^ | May 20, 2013 | Peter Suderman

[2ndDivisionVet]

The opening day excuse for the IRS targeting conservative groups requesting tax exempt status was that the IRS was facing an unusual influx of applicants. But that turns out not to have been the case. Applications for tax exempt 501 groups didn’t surge in 2010. In fact, the number of applicants was down in every category from 2009. The new line on the scandal is that it was a product of poor management, incompetence, and a struggling, understaffed agency. Here, for example, is The New York Times, in a reported piece from yesterday: “Overseen by a revolving cast of midlevel managers, stalled by miscommunication with IRS lawyers and executives in Washington, and confused about the rules they were enforcing, the Cincinnati specialists flagged virtually every application with Tea Party in its name.”

The IRS doesn’t look particularly good in this version of events. But it’s useful to liberals who want to argue that the problems stem from lack of resources—not a government that is too big, but one that is too small....

[PapaBear3625]

Obama told whoever was in charge of getting out political demands, to have the IRS go after Conservatives. It is that simple and no one except a handful will ever know for sure, tho in fact many will know.

Obama met with the head of the IRS employees union just before this crap started (another thread covered it). The union's network of union reps can verbally communicate what Obama wants done to each individual IRS employee, and leave no paper trail.

Government employee unions must be eliminated.

[GOPJ]

Detroit might be a violent cesspool - but the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t target real violence - they target middle class grandparents picketing the IRS. It’s a strange world.

[GOPJ]

Seems so...