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In reply to the discussion: Why is everyone "outraged"?? [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)when you can just type it in and it will come up with links all over the Internet. That is exactly how I found it. Why should I do the work for you when I easily found it? The letter was from Senator Charles E. Schumer March 12, 2012 and six other Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee.
And they did not mention Tea Party but groups sprouting up as Social welfare groups as a disguise to political activity. They asked the IRS to place particular scrutiny on these groups, because a lot of them were applying for tax exempt status. If most of them were conservative groups, then most naturally they would get examined more. So the concern did not come from the Obama Administration or the Whitehouse but from Congress about these groups.
Not only this, the Republicans knew about where the scrutiny began ned on these groups from because in a counter letter from Senator Orrin Hatch on the Finance Committee he and 10 other Republican Senators sent a letter to the Republican appointed Commissioner, not Miller, protesting the extra scrutiny.
That is the flaw in the Republicans' argument about inserting the Obama Administration or the White house into this fuss. The IRS placed extra scrutiny on these groups because it was initiated by Congress! The Press also knows this because they reported it at the time. The issue was a legitimate one because you had these organizations sprouting up and funded by certain donors like the Koch brothers, pretending to be for Social Welfare when in actuality these groups are mostly engaged in politics. It depends on whose side you are on? I don't think the American people will be fooled at all by this deception!