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Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 5:09 am
by _bcspace
Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea-party-affiliated groups, the documents show.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-denounces-reported-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/13/a0185644-bbdf-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_print.html

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 7:34 am
by _MeDotOrg
I hope I speak for most people on this board when I say that the IRS should never be used for political purposes. Unfortunately, history provides us with numerous examples of both parties attempting to use the IRS for exactly that.

This is something that does need to be investigated.

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 1:53 pm
by _Bret Ripley
MeDotOrg wrote:I hope I speak for most people on this board when I say that the IRS should never be used for political purposes. Unfortunately, history provides us with numerous examples of both parties attempting to use the IRS for exactly that.

This is something that does need to be investigated.
Exactly.

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 2:36 pm
by _Res Ipsa
MeDotOrg wrote:I hope I speak for most people on this board when I say that the IRS should never be used for political purposes. Unfortunately, history provides us with numerous examples of both parties attempting to use the IRS for exactly that.

This is something that does need to be investigated.


This liberal agrees.

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 4:21 pm
by _bcspace
This liberal agrees.


Then you're on the way out of liberalism as that philosophy requires a dictatorship to implement. Now if you had said "classic liberal", that would be another story.

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 4:25 pm
by _Res Ipsa
bcspace wrote:
This liberal agrees.


Then you're on the way out of liberalism as that philosophy requires a dictatorship to implement. Now if you had said "classic liberal", that would be another story.


You and Humpty Dumpty....

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 10:54 pm
by _ajax18
Brad Hudson wrote:
MeDotOrg wrote:I hope I speak for most people on this board when I say that the IRS should never be used for political purposes. Unfortunately, history provides us with numerous examples of both parties attempting to use the IRS for exactly that.

This is something that does need to be investigated.


This liberal agrees.


I can't help but have a lot of respect for that.

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 11:07 pm
by _Res Ipsa
Thanks, Ajax. The IG report is online now.

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:51 pm
by _Brackite

Re: Leftwing IRS Scandal Spreads to Washington

Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 5:35 pm
by _Brackite