I need to throw a tantrum.
We have at present a fistful of scandal that all revolve around a failure of checks and balances.
Let's start with the IRS.
The media and both sides of the aisle are crying viewpoint discrimination. Everyone seems to agree that these poor helpless (har har) Tea Party activists were unfairly targeted. This is indisputably so, and wholly irrelevant.
Let me make you an analogy. Let's say you and a friend go to a cockfight. You both place the same bet and win. The guy running the cockfight decides he thinks your friend is a Mexican, so he's going to wait two weeks to pay him. What grounds does your friend have to sue for discrimination? Is it not unfair of the guy running the fight to not pay your Mexican friend? Of course it is. But it's all ill gotten gains, and you cannot sue for that, because it is unjust for you to receive them at all.
501(c)4 statute reads "exclusively", not primarily. The IRS has no authority to make the change. This illegal loophole was carved out in 1959. The House Oversight Committee hearings are rapidly turning into a popcorn-worthy partisan fist fight, but the obvious solution to the underlying problem is as swift as it is efficient. Police power lies in the Executive. The IRS answers to the Treasury which is part of the Executive. The whole (c)3/(c)4 debacle could be solved with an executive order, and not even from Obama. Jack Lew could order the IRS to change the regulation to comply with the law. I have no earthly idea why this has not happened.
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