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Did some Tea Partier or one of the organizations that was audited come out and talk about this - or did the IRS themselves discover that this was being done and they stopped it and apologized for it. I haven't been following this very closely and really don't know how this came to be an issue. If someone could help me on this - it would be appreciated.
A side comment on it now - what I'm concerned about now is that these groups/organizations that were targeted and audited by the IRS- because they and the Repugs have made such a big issue about this - will think that they can get away with doing sneaky stuff now - because they might think that there's no chance that the IRS will audit them again. Will they think now that they have a green light to cheat?
madokie
(51,076 posts)created by the gop to make Obama/Clinton look bad.
Check out this link and then tell me what you think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Shulman
Shulman was a gwbush plant and his job in all this is as I stated. IMO
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)subterranean
(3,427 posts)They were just targeted for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. Which seems reasonable to me since many of these groups are/were political in nature.
Why this is suddenly becoming an issue now, I don't know. I'd be interested to know the answer too.
Iris
(15,648 posts)Why wouldn't they be scrutinized?
JHB
(37,152 posts)...while this was happening.
Inspector General thought it was an issue.. this isn't some made up bs
1KansasDem
(251 posts)made complaints. That May have caused the Inspector General to start his investigation which he is supposed to release soon.
Speculation is that the IRS tried to get out front on this friday with their news conference.