Republican IRS agent says Cincinnati began 'Tea Party' inquiries

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24. There NEVER was a "scandal". These groups are SUPPOSED to be screened for Christ sake. The ONLY

question is, were any groups made to provide MORE information and jump through MORE hoops than other groups? If so, that wouldn't be entirely fair. BUT, if they were making these political groups do that, it is only because they get so many applications for tax exempt status that they were PRIORITIZING their level of inquiry with these kinds of political groups that are only supposed to receive tax exempt status if they are mainly social welfare groups, which of course they are not. Maybe not an entirely fair use of discretion, and maybe a need to re-evaluate and adjust those practices, but there was certainly no "ideological targeting" of these groups. It was a question of HOW they were prioritizing and executing their tasks, and NOT a matter of any kind of intentional "targeting" or "discrimination" based on political ideology. In fact, a few years back a liberal group in Maine, "Emerge Maine", LOST it's tax exempt status because it was show it was NOT mainly a social welfare group. No political group, right wing or liberal, should even be applying for tax exempt status since their activities, obviously, are mainly political and not for social welfare as the 501c4 law requires.