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spanone

(135,802 posts)
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 11:17 PM Nov 2013

GOBAMA!!! New Rules Would Rein In Nonprofits’ Political Role

The Obama administration on Tuesday moved to curb political activity by tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, with potentially major ramifications for some of the biggest and most secretive spenders in American politics.

New rules proposed by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service would clarify both how the I.R.S. defines political activity and how much nonprofits are allowed to spend on it. The proposal covers not just television advertising, but bread-and-butter political work like candidate forums and get-out-the-vote drives.

Long demanded by government watchdogs and Democrats who say the flow of money through tax-exempt groups is corrupting the political system, the changes would be the first wholesale shift in a generation in the regulations governing political activity by nonprofits.

The move follows years of legal and regulatory shifts, including the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in 2010, that have steadily loosened the rules governing political spending, particularly by those with the biggest bank accounts: corporations, unions and wealthy individuals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/us/politics/new-campaign-rules-proposed-for-tax-exempt-nonprofits.html?hpw&rref=politics&_r=0&pagewanted=print

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GOBAMA!!! New Rules Would Rein In Nonprofits’ Political Role (Original Post) spanone Nov 2013 OP
k/r Dawson Leery Nov 2013 #1
Excellent gopiscrap Nov 2013 #2
Great news. JNelson6563 Nov 2013 #3
Good stuff! Dyedinthewoolliberal Nov 2013 #4
I agree. demosincebirth Nov 2013 #9
Gobama is right! sheshe2 Nov 2013 #5
i love him going on the offense....i think he's had enough spanone Nov 2013 #6
You are so correct! sheshe2 Nov 2013 #7
We are on a roll and going blue14u Nov 2013 #11
I am like that... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2013 #14
Good Luck with that! Thanks for trying.. those "tax exempt" poliitical Cha Nov 2013 #8
you're welcome Cha...! spanone Nov 2013 #16
K&R ffr Nov 2013 #10
IRS liberal from boston Nov 2013 #12
+++ moondust Nov 2013 #13
These rules are needed Gothmog Nov 2013 #15
The rules are already there they are just not enforced. Vincardog Nov 2013 #17

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,560 posts)
4. Good stuff!
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 11:48 PM
Nov 2013

I hope. But I wonder about the last sentence. It seems to me if unions had so much money they would have a lot more pro-labor candidates elected and laws changed, wouldn't they? I think the idea that 'big unions' are a problem because of money to spend during elections is a straw man...........

sheshe2

(83,708 posts)
7. You are so correct!
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 12:18 AM
Nov 2013

He's had it with them and there is no holding him back. He is going to fire every salvo at them now. Look out incoming....Boom Splat gotcha again!

Thank you spanone!

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
14. I am like that...
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 02:18 AM
Nov 2013

I have an incredible tolerance for BS, but once I get pushed past a certain point I am done, and will take no more.

Cha

(297,029 posts)
8. Good Luck with that! Thanks for trying.. those "tax exempt" poliitical
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 12:19 AM
Nov 2013

activists need to start paying taxes like the rest of us.

Thank you, spanone~

ffr

(22,665 posts)
10. K&R
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 01:30 AM
Nov 2013

We can do this and the other things at the same time. We're Democrats. Multitasking and complexities don't slow us down.

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