BREAKING: President Obama says he has asked for, and received, resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller.
President Obama announced Wednesday that acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller would resign in the wake of the agency scandal in which conservative groups were targeted -- though Miller was apparently set to step down anyway.
Did a Tea Party terrorist cause the IRS to target the movement? This was an interesting read. I don't know if it is true or not so make up your own minds.
What else happened in February 2010? The first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., featuring a major speech by Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee. The New York Times lede on that story, published on Feb. 6: "As Sarah Palin left the stage at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here Saturday night, the crowd erupted into chants of 'Run Sarah Run!'" The headline? "Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party Meeting." More suggestions of active electoral political activity.
And then this caught my eye.
On February 23, 2010, Robert Wright, writing for the Times' Opinionator blog, looked at "The First Tea Party Terrorist?" His column on the Andrew Joseph Stack incident is chilling in retrospect and in light of the IRS's subsequent decision to begin sorting exemption applications for groups with "Tea Party, "Patriot" "9/12" and other conservative buzzwords in their names for referral to a specialist.
On February 18th, Stack had flown a small airplane into an IRS office in Austin, Texas, killing himself and IRS agent Vernon Hunter and injuring 13 on the ground. Stack left behind a six-page rant against the federal government and the IRS. His conclusion: "I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
Did a Tea Party terrorist cause the IRS to target the movement? This was an interesting read. I don't know if it is true or not so make up your own minds.
What else happened in February 2010? The first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., featuring a major speech by Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee. The New York Times lede on that story, published on Feb. 6: "As Sarah Palin left the stage at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here Saturday night, the crowd erupted into chants of 'Run Sarah Run!'" The headline? "Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party Meeting." More suggestions of active electoral political activity.
And then this caught my eye.
On February 23, 2010, Robert Wright, writing for the Times' Opinionator blog, looked at "The First Tea Party Terrorist?" His column on the Andrew Joseph Stack incident is chilling in retrospect and in light of the IRS's subsequent decision to begin sorting exemption applications for groups with "Tea Party, "Patriot" "9/12" and other conservative buzzwords in their names for referral to a specialist.
On February 18th, Stack had flown a small airplane into an IRS office in Austin, Texas, killing himself and IRS agent Vernon Hunter and injuring 13 on the ground. Stack left behind a six-page rant against the federal government and the IRS. His conclusion: "I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
He was not in the Tea Party.....Obama or his puppet master targeted the Tea Party....They try to get rid of anything and everyone that do not share there views....I hope those that thought this was a good guy can see Obama for what he is...is it to much to ask for a little integrity?...Anyone that lies will steal and those that steal will kill...
Yes I know Bush did this and that....talking about Obama and the last week of his news worthy News
With all that has been found out it just reinforces the idea that this election was rigged...Don't think it can be done? It can and I am sure it was....
“We the people are the rightful masters of bothCongress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
Did a Tea Party terrorist cause the IRS to target the movement? This was an interesting read. I don't know if it is true or not so make up your own minds.
What else happened in February 2010? The first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., featuring a major speech by Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee. The New York Times lede on that story, published on Feb. 6: "As Sarah Palin left the stage at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here Saturday night, the crowd erupted into chants of 'Run Sarah Run!'" The headline? "Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party Meeting." More suggestions of active electoral political activity.
And then this caught my eye.
On February 23, 2010, Robert Wright, writing for the Times' Opinionator blog, looked at "The First Tea Party Terrorist?" His column on the Andrew Joseph Stack incident is chilling in retrospect and in light of the IRS's subsequent decision to begin sorting exemption applications for groups with "Tea Party, "Patriot" "9/12" and other conservative buzzwords in their names for referral to a specialist.
On February 18th, Stack had flown a small airplane into an IRS office in Austin, Texas, killing himself and IRS agent Vernon Hunter and injuring 13 on the ground. Stack left behind a six-page rant against the federal government and the IRS. His conclusion: "I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
He was not in the Tea Party.....Obama or his puppet master targeted the Tea Party....They try to get rid of anything and everyone that do not share there views....I hope those that thought this was a good guy can see Obama for what he is...is it to much to ask for a little integrity?...Anyone that lies will steal and those that steal will kill...
Yes I know Bush did this and that....talking about Obama and the last week of his news worthy News
With all that has been found out it just reinforces the idea that this election was rigged...Don't think it can be done? It can and I am sure it was....
The election was rigged now?
And while we are in crazy town, what the hell does "Anyone that lies will steal and those that steal will kill..." mean?
So much hate for the man Arial. I think you might miss having that vent when he is gone.
Did a Tea Party terrorist cause the IRS to target the movement? This was an interesting read. I don't know if it is true or not so make up your own minds.
What else happened in February 2010? The first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., featuring a major speech by Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee. The New York Times lede on that story, published on Feb. 6: "As Sarah Palin left the stage at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here Saturday night, the crowd erupted into chants of 'Run Sarah Run!'" The headline? "Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party Meeting." More suggestions of active electoral political activity.
And then this caught my eye.
On February 23, 2010, Robert Wright, writing for the Times' Opinionator blog, looked at "The First Tea Party Terrorist?" His column on the Andrew Joseph Stack incident is chilling in retrospect and in light of the IRS's subsequent decision to begin sorting exemption applications for groups with "Tea Party, "Patriot" "9/12" and other conservative buzzwords in their names for referral to a specialist.
On February 18th, Stack had flown a small airplane into an IRS office in Austin, Texas, killing himself and IRS agent Vernon Hunter and injuring 13 on the ground. Stack left behind a six-page rant against the federal government and the IRS. His conclusion: "I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
He was not in the Tea Party.....Obama or his puppet master targeted the Tea Party....They try to get rid of anything and everyone that do not share there views....I hope those that thought this was a good guy can see Obama for what he is...is it to much to ask for a little integrity?...Anyone that lies will steal and those that steal will kill...
Yes I know Bush did this and that....talking about Obama and the last week of his news worthy News
With all that has been found out it just reinforces the idea that this election was rigged...Don't think it can be done? It can and I am sure it was....
The election was rigged now?
And while we are in crazy town, what the hell does "Anyone that lies will steal and those that steal will kill..." mean?
So much hate for the man Arial. I think you might miss having that vent when he is gone.
“If you'll lie you'll steal and if you'll steal you'll kill.” African-American Proverb
I do not hate....I just do not care for liars
“We the people are the rightful masters of bothCongress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service admitted to targeting and harassing conservative nonprofit organizations based on their political ideology.
Unfortunately, it gets worse.
The IRS is set to amass even greater authority as the lead enforcement agency for Obamacare - empowered to tax individuals and job creators that it deems not to be compliant with the President's burdensome requirements.
Obamacare is already an absolute train wreck, and yet President Obama has empowered federal tax collectors even further. Based on what we now know, how can we trust the IRS to treat all Americans equally under the law?
The Republican led house has voted, for the 37th time, to repeal President Obama’s health care law, even though GOP lawmakers know the Senate will not follow suit.
(CNN) – Republicans using the Internal Revenue Service scandal to slam health care reform have a new twist in their argument.
Sarah Hall Ingram, who heads the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at the IRS, formerly led the agency's tax exempt/government entities division, the same division that's now taking heat for targeting conservative groups in the past few years.
An IRS spokesperson confirmed Ingram is the current director of the Affordable Care Act office, a department she’s worked in since December 2010. Meanwhile, a 2009 posting on the IRS website referred to her as the commissioner for the tax exempt/government entities division.
The IRS admitted last week it began over-scrutinizing conservative groups in 2010.
Joseph Grant, her successor, began acting as division commissioner in December 2010, the IRS spokesperson said, and earlier this month he was officially named commissioner.
Earlier Thursday, he became the second IRS official this week to announce his resignation. Grant plans to retire June 3, according to an internal memo for IRS employees that was obtained by CNN.
Before directing the tax exempt division in 2009, Ingram served as chief of appeals at the IRS for three years and as counsel/associate chief counsel for the tax exempt division. She started at the agency in 1982.
The Republican-led House of Representatives passed a measure to repeal Obamacare entirely on Thursday for the third time.
But the latest scandal involving the IRS, one of the key agencies charged with enforcing the health care law, is adding fuel to the political fire over the controversial law.
And Congressional Republicans are already citing the new development about Ingram as another reason why health care needs to be rolled back.
Thursday's vote was the 37th time the House has attempted to eliminate all or parts of the law.
“Stunning, just stunning," was all Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had to say about the revelation Ingram previously led the tax exempt division.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced a bill to "prohibit" the Treasury Department from enforcing the Affordable Care Act. The legislation, which has little chance of passing in the Democratic-led Senate, is titled "Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013."
The recent IRS scandal "raises pertinent questions about the agency's ability to implement and oversee" the health care law, according to the legislation.
The Republican led house has voted, for the 37th time, to repeal President Obama’s health care law, even though GOP lawmakers know the Senate will not follow suit.
The worst part about this IRS thing is that it gives unwarranted legitimacy to a fringe political group already known for it's paranoia...
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Devereaux is among a group of activists, being represented by the American Center for Law and Justice, who are preparing to sue the federal government for the practice of targeting Tea Party groups. ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow told FoxNews.com he'll likely file the civil suits next Wednesday or Thursday on behalf of more than a dozen Tea Party groups who say they were singled out by the IRS and had their tax-exempt status severely delayed or denied altogether.
The worst part about this IRS thing is that it gives unwarranted legitimacy to a fringe political group already known for it's paranoia...
Can the others defend themselves without throwing around accusation with unwarranted labels on people.....
There is proof it IS warranted and no one is paranoid.......the so called fringe can comprehend the facts.....sorry for those that can not...
“We the people are the rightful masters of bothCongress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
Devereaux is among a group of activists, being represented by the American Center for Law and Justice, who are preparing to sue the federal government for the practice of targeting Tea Party groups. ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow told FoxNews.com he'll likely file the civil suits next Wednesday or Thursday on behalf of more than a dozen Tea Party groups who say they were singled out by the IRS and had their tax-exempt status severely delayed or denied altogether.
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Conservative group says IRS approved nonprofit status after applying with ‘liberal-sounding name’
In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group.
He submitted the paperwork to the IRS in July 2011 for a research site called Media Trackers, which calls itself a "non-partisan investigative watchdog dedicated to promoting accountability in the media and government." Although the site has investigated Republicans like Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the site's organizers are unapologetically conservative.
"One thing we don't hide is: 'Yeah, we're conservative—free-market, free-enterprise, full-spectrum conservative,'" Ryun told Mother Jones magazine last year.
Eight months passed without word from the agency about the group's application, Ryun said. In February 2012, Ryun's attorney contacted the IRS to ask if it needed more information to secure its nonprofit status as a 501(c)3 organization. According to Ryun, the IRS told him that the application was being processed by the agency's office in Cincinnati, Ohio—the same one currently facing scrutiny for targeting conservative groups—and to check back in two months.
As directed, Ryun followed up with the IRS in April 2012, and was told that Media Trackers' application was still under review.
When September 2012 arrived with still no word from the IRS, Ryun determined that Media Trackers would likely never obtain standalone nonprofit status, and he tried a new approach: He applied for permanent nonprofit status for a separate group called Greenhouse Solutions, a pre-existing organization that was reaching the end of its determination period.
The IRS approved Greenhouse Solutions' request for permanent nonprofit status in three weeks.
In December 2012, Ryun simply made Media Trackers a project of Greenhouse Solutions and withdrew the Media Trackers application.
The reason for the difference in timing could have nothing to do with the group's name. Greenhouse Solutions was applying for "permanent" nonprofit status after existing as a nonprofit group for some time. Media Trackers, a new group, was just beginning the first steps in the application process. Having a previous file with the IRS could very well have been the reason Greenhouse's application was approved so quickly.
But when news broke last week that the IRS had applied heavier scrutiny to conservative groups seeking nonprofit status from 2010-2012, Ryun said he became convinced that his second application was approved quickly because he applied under the Greenhouse Solutions title, which he called a "liberal-sounding name."
"Within three weeks, Greenhouse received permanent nonprofit status from the IRS, and the IRS approval was transmitted to us from its Cincinnati office. We then rolled the Media Trackers project into Greenhouse and began work on a number of new projects," Ryun told Yahoo News in an interview. "Do I think we benefited from what many think is a liberal-sounding name? Absolutely."
The IRS website explains why some requests for tax-exempt status take longer than others to process.
"Sometimes, representatives of exempt organizations and practitioners question why certain applications for tax exemption are processed faster than others. Not all applications are the same," the site reads. "While many are complete when received and involve straight-forward scenarios, others may be incomplete or involve complex issues that require further development."
The IRS is currently under fire from both Democrats and Republicans, and Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday announced that he had directed the FBI to launch a criminal probe into the IRS. The same day, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration submitted a review of the IRS' practices, which found that the agency had used "inappropriate criteria" to determine which groups were eligible for nonprofit status. Current and former IRS officials are expected to testify about the issue before House committees starting Friday.
“We the people are the rightful masters of bothCongress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
The worst part about this IRS thing is that it gives unwarranted legitimacy to a fringe political group already known for it's paranoia...
Can the others defend themselves without throwing around accusation with unwarranted labels on people.....
There is proof it IS warranted and no one is paranoid.......the so called fringe can comprehend the facts.....sorry for those that can not...
Without delving into the merits of this particular issue, I made my comment with the other parts of tea party ideology in mind. I've had the misfortune of living in a state where Michele Bachmann is quite vocal and I can comfortably say, if she is the leading light of the tea party movement, then yes, tea party beliefs and points of view are largely based on paranoia.
It's a shame that a thing like this had to happen - which is wrong, might I add - because it may regalvanize a paranoid fringe element of American politics that was looking dead.
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The worst part about this IRS thing is that it gives unwarranted legitimacy to a fringe political group already known for it's paranoia...
Can the others defend themselves without throwing around accusation with unwarranted labels on people.....
There is proof it IS warranted and no one is paranoid.......the so called fringe can comprehend the facts.....sorry for those that can not...
Without delving into the merits of this particular issue, I made my comment with the other parts of tea party ideology in mind. I've had the misfortune of living in a state where Michele Bachmann is quite vocal and I can comfortably say, if she is the leading light of the tea party movement, then yes, tea party beliefs and points of view are largely based on paranoia.
It's a shame that a thing like this had to happen - which is wrong, might I add - because it may regalvanize a paranoid fringe element of American politics that was looking dead.
being informed is not paranoia ..........better than turning a blind eye
“We the people are the rightful masters of bothCongress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
being informed is not paranoia ..........better than turning a blind eye
Again, I stand by my assessment that the tea party is not representative of an "informed" constituency.
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This is an absolute non-scandal. No one should have been asked to resign. No one in the IRS should have apologized. Because of the bullshit Citizens United ruling, a swarm of bullshit political groups have been applying for tax-exempt status to take advantage of the ruling... none of these Tea Party groups care about social welfare... 100% of Tea Party groups are bullshit... None of them should be given tax-exempt status... the IRS was right to pay more scrutiny to their applications.
I know that with comments like this you are probably just baiting, but I will bite.
On one side there is you, on the other, a giant non-partisan majority believes what the IRS employees did was wrong. Including the non-partisan inspector general, and the democratic president in the white house and many in congress. There is something wrong with what they did. Extra scrutiny to groups applying for tax exempt status is fine as long as it is applied equally, which it wasn't.
And it is simply your opinion that they weren't interested in social welfare by your own subjective bias. Voter education is widely accepted as a social welfare initiative. Just because you disagree with the education they offer doesn't mean it isn't as legitimate as groups touting the danger of a voter id law experiencing the tax exempt status advantage.
and as a simple aside, if you don't like people "taking advantage" of tax code quit supporting politicians involved in writing tax laws with the ambiguity akin to the sexuality of
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Mark Tapscott at The Washington Examiner reports that Ingram received $103,390 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012, including $34,440 in 2010, $35,400 in 2011, and $26,550 last year. Here's what the White House Office of Personnel Management says about bonuses that big: "If the recommended award is over $25,000, the Director of OPM reviews the nomination and forwards his/her recommendation to the President for approval." (Tapscott also notes that Ingram got a $47,900 bonus from George W. Bush in 2004.)
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"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Obama is pretty much fighting his own three-headed hydra right now.
President Obama announced Wednesday that acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller would resign in the wake of the agency scandal in which conservative groups were targeted -- though Miller was apparently set to step down anyway.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05 ... z2TSb3Wxmk
guilty or not Miller is being used as a fall guy for uncle obama
Godfather.
:think:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... ng/275887/
What else happened in February 2010? The first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., featuring a major speech by Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee. The New York Times lede on that story, published on Feb. 6: "As Sarah Palin left the stage at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here Saturday night, the crowd erupted into chants of 'Run Sarah Run!'" The headline? "Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party Meeting." More suggestions of active electoral political activity.
And then this caught my eye.
On February 23, 2010, Robert Wright, writing for the Times' Opinionator blog, looked at "The First Tea Party Terrorist?" His column on the Andrew Joseph Stack incident is chilling in retrospect and in light of the IRS's subsequent decision to begin sorting exemption applications for groups with "Tea Party, "Patriot" "9/12" and other conservative buzzwords in their names for referral to a specialist.
On February 18th, Stack had flown a small airplane into an IRS office in Austin, Texas, killing himself and IRS agent Vernon Hunter and injuring 13 on the ground. Stack left behind a six-page rant against the federal government and the IRS. His conclusion: "I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05 ... z2TTp9f2xQ
ummmmm sounds like....
"I did not have sexual relations with that girl"
Bill Clinton-
Godfather.
Paging unsung, paging unsung to AMT...
I wish !!!
Godfather.
He was not in the Tea Party.....Obama or his puppet master targeted the Tea Party....They try to get rid of anything and everyone that do not share there views....I hope those that thought this was a good guy can see Obama for what he is...is it to much to ask for a little integrity?...Anyone that lies will steal and those that steal will kill...
Yes I know Bush did this and that....talking about Obama and the last week of his news worthy News
With all that has been found out it just reinforces the idea that this election was rigged...Don't think it can be done? It can and I am sure it was....
The election was rigged now?
And while we are in crazy town, what the hell does "Anyone that lies will steal and those that steal will kill..." mean?
So much hate for the man Arial. I think you might miss having that vent when he is gone.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
“If you'll lie you'll steal and if you'll steal you'll kill.” African-American Proverb
I do not hate....I just do not care for liars
Unfortunately, it gets worse.
The IRS is set to amass even greater authority as the lead enforcement agency for Obamacare - empowered to tax individuals and job creators that it deems not to be compliant with the President's burdensome requirements.
Obamacare is already an absolute train wreck, and yet President Obama has empowered federal tax collectors even further. Based on what we now know, how can we trust the IRS to treat all Americans equally under the law?
Godfather.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05 ... z2TYJ5y46U
Godfather.
Sarah Hall Ingram, who heads the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at the IRS, formerly led the agency's tax exempt/government entities division, the same division that's now taking heat for targeting conservative groups in the past few years.
An IRS spokesperson confirmed Ingram is the current director of the Affordable Care Act office, a department she’s worked in since December 2010. Meanwhile, a 2009 posting on the IRS website referred to her as the commissioner for the tax exempt/government entities division.
The IRS admitted last week it began over-scrutinizing conservative groups in 2010.
Joseph Grant, her successor, began acting as division commissioner in December 2010, the IRS spokesperson said, and earlier this month he was officially named commissioner.
Earlier Thursday, he became the second IRS official this week to announce his resignation. Grant plans to retire June 3, according to an internal memo for IRS employees that was obtained by CNN.
Before directing the tax exempt division in 2009, Ingram served as chief of appeals at the IRS for three years and as counsel/associate chief counsel for the tax exempt division. She started at the agency in 1982.
The Republican-led House of Representatives passed a measure to repeal Obamacare entirely on Thursday for the third time.
But the latest scandal involving the IRS, one of the key agencies charged with enforcing the health care law, is adding fuel to the political fire over the controversial law.
And Congressional Republicans are already citing the new development about Ingram as another reason why health care needs to be rolled back.
Thursday's vote was the 37th time the House has attempted to eliminate all or parts of the law.
“Stunning, just stunning," was all Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had to say about the revelation Ingram previously led the tax exempt division.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced a bill to "prohibit" the Treasury Department from enforcing the Affordable Care Act. The legislation, which has little chance of passing in the Democratic-led Senate, is titled "Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013."
The recent IRS scandal "raises pertinent questions about the agency's ability to implement and oversee" the health care law, according to the legislation.
and ya'll still trust obama ?
Godfather.
Kinda seems like they are wasting their time and our money every time they hold one of these votes.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05 ... z2TeCnvixP
this is dangerous,the IRS/Government Never forgets and these guys will be targeted later down the road I'd bet.
Godfather.
Can the others defend themselves without throwing around accusation with unwarranted labels on people.....
There is proof it IS warranted and no one is paranoid.......the so called fringe can comprehend the facts.....sorry for those that can not...
Gotcha, that makes complete ideological sense.
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Conservative group says IRS approved nonprofit status after applying with ‘liberal-sounding name’
In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group.
He submitted the paperwork to the IRS in July 2011 for a research site called Media Trackers, which calls itself a "non-partisan investigative watchdog dedicated to promoting accountability in the media and government." Although the site has investigated Republicans like Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the site's organizers are unapologetically conservative.
"One thing we don't hide is: 'Yeah, we're conservative—free-market, free-enterprise, full-spectrum conservative,'" Ryun told Mother Jones magazine last year.
Eight months passed without word from the agency about the group's application, Ryun said. In February 2012, Ryun's attorney contacted the IRS to ask if it needed more information to secure its nonprofit status as a 501(c)3 organization. According to Ryun, the IRS told him that the application was being processed by the agency's office in Cincinnati, Ohio—the same one currently facing scrutiny for targeting conservative groups—and to check back in two months.
As directed, Ryun followed up with the IRS in April 2012, and was told that Media Trackers' application was still under review.
When September 2012 arrived with still no word from the IRS, Ryun determined that Media Trackers would likely never obtain standalone nonprofit status, and he tried a new approach: He applied for permanent nonprofit status for a separate group called Greenhouse Solutions, a pre-existing organization that was reaching the end of its determination period.
The IRS approved Greenhouse Solutions' request for permanent nonprofit status in three weeks.
In December 2012, Ryun simply made Media Trackers a project of Greenhouse Solutions and withdrew the Media Trackers application.
The reason for the difference in timing could have nothing to do with the group's name. Greenhouse Solutions was applying for "permanent" nonprofit status after existing as a nonprofit group for some time. Media Trackers, a new group, was just beginning the first steps in the application process. Having a previous file with the IRS could very well have been the reason Greenhouse's application was approved so quickly.
But when news broke last week that the IRS had applied heavier scrutiny to conservative groups seeking nonprofit status from 2010-2012, Ryun said he became convinced that his second application was approved quickly because he applied under the Greenhouse Solutions title, which he called a "liberal-sounding name."
"Within three weeks, Greenhouse received permanent nonprofit status from the IRS, and the IRS approval was transmitted to us from its Cincinnati office. We then rolled the Media Trackers project into Greenhouse and began work on a number of new projects," Ryun told Yahoo News in an interview. "Do I think we benefited from what many think is a liberal-sounding name? Absolutely."
The IRS website explains why some requests for tax-exempt status take longer than others to process.
"Sometimes, representatives of exempt organizations and practitioners question why certain applications for tax exemption are processed faster than others. Not all applications are the same," the site reads. "While many are complete when received and involve straight-forward scenarios, others may be incomplete or involve complex issues that require further development."
The IRS is currently under fire from both Democrats and Republicans, and Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday announced that he had directed the FBI to launch a criminal probe into the IRS. The same day, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration submitted a review of the IRS' practices, which found that the agency had used "inappropriate criteria" to determine which groups were eligible for nonprofit status. Current and former IRS officials are expected to testify about the issue before House committees starting Friday.
Without delving into the merits of this particular issue, I made my comment with the other parts of tea party ideology in mind. I've had the misfortune of living in a state where Michele Bachmann is quite vocal and I can comfortably say, if she is the leading light of the tea party movement, then yes, tea party beliefs and points of view are largely based on paranoia.
It's a shame that a thing like this had to happen - which is wrong, might I add - because it may regalvanize a paranoid fringe element of American politics that was looking dead.
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being informed is not paranoia ..........better than turning a blind eye
Again, I stand by my assessment that the tea party is not representative of an "informed" constituency.
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I know that with comments like this you are probably just baiting, but I will bite.
On one side there is you, on the other, a giant non-partisan majority believes what the IRS employees did was wrong. Including the non-partisan inspector general, and the democratic president in the white house and many in congress. There is something wrong with what they did. Extra scrutiny to groups applying for tax exempt status is fine as long as it is applied equally, which it wasn't.
And it is simply your opinion that they weren't interested in social welfare by your own subjective bias. Voter education is widely accepted as a social welfare initiative. Just because you disagree with the education they offer doesn't mean it isn't as legitimate as groups touting the danger of a voter id law experiencing the tax exempt status advantage.
and as a simple aside, if you don't like people "taking advantage" of tax code quit supporting politicians involved in writing tax laws with the ambiguity akin to the sexuality of
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
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Harry Reid....few fries short of a Happy Meal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2529899?slideout=1
Once again you like so many other regressives refuse to write the truth or do the research to get the truth.
It is not unheard of for Govt employees to get bonuses.
Yes she did get that much in bonuses but it was over 4 years
PLus in 2004 she received $47,900 bonus from George W. Bush
Guess you forgot to mention that part of the story :nono:
took me less then 1 minute to find this out
http://theweek.com/article/index/244369/the-irs-scandal-is-sarah-hall-ingram-the-next-head-to-roll
I'm too terrified to walk out of my own front door,
They're demonstrating outside I think they're gonna start the third world war,
I've been to my local head shrinker,
To help classify my disease,
He said it's one of the cases of acute schizophrenia he sees.
Well the milkman's a spy, and the grocer keeps on following me,
And the woman next door's an undercover for the K.G.B.,
And the man from the Social Security
Keeps on invading my privacy,
Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease.
I've got acute schizophrenia, paranoia too,
Schizophrenia, schizophrenia,
I've got it, you've got it, we can't lose,
Acute schizophrenia blues.
I'm lost on the river, the river of no return,
I can't make decisions, I don't know which way I'm gonna turn,
Even my old dad, lost some of the best friends he ever had,
Apparently, his was a case of acute schizophrenia too.
I got acute schizophrenia, paranoia too,
Schizophrenia, schizophrenia,
I've got it, you've got it, we can't lose,
They're watching my house and they're tapping my telephone,
I don't trust nobody, but I'm much too scared to be on my own
And the income tax collector's got his beady eye on me,
No there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease.
No there ain't no cure for
Schizophrenia disease
Hail, Hail!!!