Ugh. More information about the IRS targeting groups and how they did it

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5. I no longer see how we can win when our own go after our side time and again

U.S. Tax Authority Apologizes for Singling Out Anti-Tax Groups

May 12, 2013


Washington (dpa) - The Internal Revenue Service admitted Friday that it treated some groups associated with the anti-tax Tea Party with additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status as nonprofit organizations.

The US tax authority said it singled out conservative groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names during the 2012 presidential election campaign season.

Lois Lerner, director of tax exempt organizations for the IRS, said career employees of the agency subjected the groups to further examination based solely on their names.

"They didn't do it correctly," Lerner said Friday in Washington, according to Bloomberg news. "We would like to apologize for that."

The agency, however, said its actions weren't politically motivated.

The Tea Party is a conservative political movement that advocates reducing government spending and taxes. Its name is derived from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, a protest against British tax policies.

"Tea Party groups complained last year that they were required to provide an inordinate amount of information when they applied for tax-exempt status."

IRS problem was they poorly thought out their mission parameters

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/5/12/us_tax_authority_apologizes_for_singling.htm