[EL] big IRS story

[Joe La Rue]

Here is an article by an attorney for some of the groups. The types of
questions they were being asked, some of which are listed in this
article, are troubling. 
http://www.nationalreview.com/347956/re-mistakes-were-made. I stand by what
I said: this should bother ALL of us. The White House has said it is
bothered by it, as has the Speaker of the House and the Senate Minority
Leader. If President Obama, Speaker Boehner, and Senator McConnell can all
agree on this, can't the members of this list serve? ;-)


Joe
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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Bill Maurer <wmaurer at ij.org> wrote:

>  If what happened is innocuous and appropriate, why did the IRS
> apologize?  I’m unfamiliar with government agencies routinely apologizing,
> much less apologizing if they haven’t done anything wrong.****
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> To remind everyone of what we know at this point, applications for 501 c4
> social welfare status were being flagged for review by IRS staffers if they
> had words in their title that suggested the organizations were political in
> nature-- ie that their major purpose was to engage in political activity
> and therefore they should be registered as a 527 rather than a c4. That is
> one of the IRS's jobs-- to determine whether a group qualifies for c4
> status, or is too "political" in purpose to do so. Based on recent cases,
> the IRS has certainly questioned/ challenged the appropriateness of c4
> status of groups with both "Democrat" and " Republican" in their name.****
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> On May 10, 2013, at 6:22 PM, "Joe La Rue" <joseph.e.larue at gmail.com>
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>   The anger should be there, regardless. NOBODY should be targeted by the
> IRS because of his or her political views. It doesn't matter to me whether
> they are targeting conservatives only, liberals only, or conservatives AND
> liberals together. And it shouldn't matter to anyone else who claims to
> love freedom. If the government can target us because of our political
> views, and can subject us to extra scrutiny and make us jump through
> extensive hoops because of we have political views, then what have we
> become?****
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> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Byron Tau <btau at politico.com> wrote:****
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> I think the anger comes from the fact that they were just flagging
> conservative-linked words. If the list also included "progressive" and
> "liberal," I don't think the anger would be there.****
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> On May 10, 2013, at 6:03 PM, "john.k.tanner at gmail.com" <
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>  Both are common adjectives for advocacy groups as well as the names of
> political parties.   ADA, SDS, ....
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