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In reply to the discussion: REVEALED: The IRS Targeted Groups Containing 'Tea Party,' 'Progressive,' 'Occupy,' And 'Israel' [View all]EVERY organization applying for this special tax break is supposed to be investigated.
The fact that the IRS isn't given enough resources to do what the law requires after the Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates, and therefore has to come up with some way to select a subset of applications to actually get to,
only shows how dysfunctional Congressional funding is.
The same dysfunctional funding that led to the SEC not finding out about Bernie Madoff.
Whining about who they actually got around to investigating - rather than why aren't ALL applicants investigated - is missing the point.
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REVEALED: The IRS Targeted Groups Containing 'Tea Party,' 'Progressive,' 'Occupy,' And 'Israel' [View all]
tpsbmam
Jun 2013
OP
Of course this won't get the same play in the M$M, cause the initial uproar was "juicier".Rating$$$.
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2013
#1
The "Occupy" angle will get some play, in terms of mean old Obama picking on them nt
geek tragedy
Jun 2013
#12
You wanna know why they were being checked? Its because many of them actually are political groups
cstanleytech
Jun 2013
#6
+1000, let's see Issa scream about the IRS preventing tax fraud across the board, I can't wait
wordpix
Jun 2013
#34
Funny that ALL we heard about was "FASCIST OBAMA IRS IS HARRASSING OUR TEA PARTY!!" nt
99th_Monkey
Jun 2013
#8
Waiting for the DUers who claimed "the federal government was using the IRS to harass
geek tragedy
Jun 2013
#11
LOL. Doing a proper enforcement job has now been declared "targeting" by the corporate/state media
PSPS
Jun 2013
#32
Of course. That is why the only group denied tax exempt status was a progressive org. nt
SunSeeker
Jun 2013
#36
On NPR this morning, the teaser for this story said, "IRS Targetting More Extreme"
Eric J in MN
Jun 2013
#40
From what I see, the story is that Issa commissioned a politically biased audit
Thor_MN
Jun 2013
#47