So the IRS has been investigating 'Tea

[applegrove]

Party' organizations to see if they are following proper tax laws. Fact is there is lots and lots of money being filtered to right wing groups. Just like Occupy organizations do more civil disobedience so they attract police interest when they organize. Same difference.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I suspect the DEA pays particularly close attention to Pro-Marijuana Organizations.

Wouldn't it make sense for the IRS to be skeptical of groups which are vocally and adamantly against taxation?

[Initech]

2. They should be investigating the treasonous billionaires financing the tea party.

Cause I'd bet a million they're the ones not following the proper tax laws!

[Generic Other]

5. I wonder if you aren't on to something

The IRS isn't wasting time on small fish. I would bet they are after bigger targets. Maybe they want to know how some of that ALEC money gets funneled. All the rest of that underhanded out-of-state money coming from PACS. There's certainly reason to audit.

The fundie churches probably should make sure their books are in order too.

[mythology]

8. Actually I'd wager that they are following the existing laws

which is precisely the problem. As Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson demonstrate in their book Winner-Take-All Politics, the extremely wealthy and corporations have spent the last 40 years stacking the deck so that they legally can improve their economic position.

While the ways in which they have done so may well be immoral, I think it's easier (read cheaper) for them to for them to get the tax law tilted in their favor than it is to actually illegally evade taxes.

That's the problem with the idea of arresting all the bankers. The laws preventing the over-leveraging and so forth had been repealed. Stupidly as it turns out because a large percentage of people and/or corporations unfortunately really can't be trusted to do the morally correct thing.

[Blue Owl]

3. BagWatch Nights

I look forward to hearing about the sleazy deals that go on behind the teabag, when darkness falls...

[Skittles]

4. I don't understand the controversy - they BRAG of their tax aversion / evasion

why WOULDN'T they be targeted?

[GoCubsGo]

6. Not to mention...

...that at least 3000 of them popped up in the period of a year. I would be far more worried if they ignored that HUGE red flag.

[AnnieBW]

7. Since most of them are astroturf

funded by the Koch Brothers and Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, I'm sure that the IRS was looking extra-hard at them to make sure that they fit the criteria.