Are you surprised by C.Ronalda's dirty tricks against Brazil...?

Yes it happened under Shulman. It's good that its come up because it will cause a review. I.R.S. is an independent organization.

The president technically didn’t fire Steve Miller. The Secretary of the Treasury did, as the president stated. There is no indication that this is anything other than an internal matter at the I.R.S. The Treasury Inspector General’s report is quite clear that everyone they talked to said this was entirely within the I.R.S. Barring any new evidence, I don’t see any reason to question that.

Nothing was done to "punish" these organizations. The I.R.S. was looking to see if the many who have requested 501(c)(4) status deserve it, which is their job. You and I and all of us in some small way financially support all those groups with that status.

They often don't have to pay property taxes, so we subsidize that with our own house taxes being a little higher. They don't pay income taxes, so our income taxes are a little higher. That means that we ALL are supporting Obama and Hillary's PACs as well as Romney's and Ryan's PACs.

I doubt you want to do that anymore than I do. The LAW defines a 501(c)(4) as a “social welfare” organization that is "not organized for profit but operated **exclusively** for the promotion of social welfare." The founding fathers would be astounded at the Citizens United ruling.

Do you know how many corporations there were in 1776? Six. Today they would be described as either a public utility or a charity.

By their own definition NONE of the political PACs (all parties) should have tax exempt status. Carl Rove’s organization, according to their tax return, spent less than 1/10th of one percent of its 2011 revenue on social welfare. But an I.R.S. *internal* regulation that’s been around since 1958 uses the word “primarily” instead of “exclusively.’

So, they almost always give that status to anyone who requests it, and they gave it to all those right wing groups in question. There are people out there who argue that “primarily” can mean 49.9% of your activity. Is there an adult who’s been in a romantic relationship who thinks that “exclusively” means 49% of the time?

More importantly, it says right on the I.R.S. web site that you can self-declare yourself a 501(c)(4) and commence to act like one. IOW, you can continue doing business as if you already had it – not revealing where funding is coming from, and not paying taxes, etc. So absolutely no harm was done to those right wing groups.

The problem is that this was not an audit. And it was too widespread to be the responsibility of just one person. This was an order given by a top member of the administration.

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