Schumer Calls for Using IRS to Curtail Tea Party Activities

Isn't there something ironic about an anonymous internet poster demanding that other people's names be revealed if they wish to exercise their First Amendment rights?

How about you piezoe? Don't we have a "right" to know who is parroting on here everything propublica posts?

Oh I forgot. Liberals have a "nuanced" view of the First Amendment, like they do of so many other things. It only protects speech they agree with. So union goons and shady soros groups can do what they like. Not conservatives or ordinary people upset at government overreach and corruption. Sic the IRS on them.
 
Cleta Mitchell is a tax attorney who represents several of the conservative groups that have been targeted by the IRS. She testified before Congress today, and her opening statement is absolutely stunning. She lays out very clearly that the IRS targeting scandal is real, still ongoing, and that the Department of Justice’s investigation into the matter is a sham.

Mitchell’s facts are solid, and anybody who has taken just a cursory look into the IRS targeting scandal can tell that there is not just unethical behavior happening here but criminal...
 
It appears that the enhanced IRS examinations of rightist groups trying for tax-exempt status is justified.

Darrell Issa Hearing Reveals IRS-Targeted Groups Prefer To Be Political
Posted: 03/27/2014 5:22 pm EDT Updated: 03/27/2014 6:59 pm EDT

"WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa's latest oversight hearing into the Internal Revenue Service's botched enforcement against tea party and other "social welfare" groups has revealed a dirty little secret: Many of those groups actually want to preserve the option to run as "dark money" political operations.

"That revelation came primarily from the prepared testimony of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who spent much of his time Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sparring with Republican lawmakers over the pace of releasing documents.

"But Koskinen also explained that the IRS had implemented all nine recommendations of the inspector general's report that first flagged the so-called targeting scandal. One of those recommendations was to clear up an unacceptable backlog in processing applications for tax-exempt status from groups that had been waiting months.

"There was a simple way to clear that logjam: All any group had to do to be granted tax-exempt status as a social welfare nonprofit under section 501(c)4 of the U.S. tax code was to swear that it was, in fact, primarily engaged in social welfare work. To make it easy, the IRS decided that groups had to pledge they would confine their political activity to less than 40 percent of their work.

"Several dozen did so, but 19 declined, Koskinen said."

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(Yes, I saw the part about "liberals are trying to catch up".)
 
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