Cross-posted in Immizen.com
Everyone has heard of the Tea Party. But did everybody know that not only were these people fighting against government and taxation, but that they applied for tax exempt status?
If they did not know, they know it now.
One thing is to complain about taxes and campaign against them, another is to dodge taxes. If it is illegal for us, it should be illegal for anyone.
We expect the law to apply equally to all, but we forget it is not. This will remind us how unfair the tax system is. No one outside of the Tea Party bubble will be happy to know that the Tea Party tried to get away with not paying taxes. No one outside of the Tea Party bubble will be happy that the Republicans are making this into a big issue. No one outside of the Tea Party bubble will be happy that yet another GOP manufactured scandal is getting in the way of doing something productive for America.
Do you think the IRS should NOT investigate when huge numbers of obviously political entities, all with similar names, pop up claiming tax-exempt status right during election season, thereby raising the obvious question of whether they are doing political rather than educational work?
Do you think the IRS should NOT investigate people who say they are against paying taxes and are applying for 503c tax exemptions?
In the end, the IRS was just doing its job, and will probably be justified in their bias to scrutinize conservative groups since far more conservative groups applied for 503c tax exemptions than liberals. And then there is the matter of national security. We're talking about people who want to bring down the American government. Paranoid radicals who think they have to have guns to overthrow the Obama administration.
Shouldn’t an entity that is political in nature and seeking tax exempt status be closely scrutinized?