Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

I didn't realize that 'thinner pig' bush targeted Greenpeace? .. or maybe I forgot .......damn! .. all these things from the worst zeroed copy of a president (they copied nixon on the copy machines) .. ;) and my GOODNESS they target GreenPeace! that's really upsetting.. sheesh, don't try to help the country for better! ... they'll get you! .. these conservative groups have never done anything good for the country ..EVER.. . but don't get me wrong that's not a reason ... but it's quite obvious that the IRS targeting any group or persons ...is SOP! ... .

Then, in 2006, the Wall Street Journal broke the story of a how a little-known pressure group called Public Interest Watch — which received 97 percent of its funds from Exxon Mobile one year — managed to get the IRS to open an investigation into Greenpeace. Greenpeace had labeled Exxon Mobil the “No. 1 climate criminal.” The IRS acknowledged its audit was initiated by Public Interest Watch and threatened to revoke Greenpeace’s tax-exempt status, but closed the investigation three months later. ... again, same thing we're doing...

As the Journal reporter, Steve Stecklow, later said in an interview, “This comes against a backdrop where a number of conservative groups have been attacking nonprofits and NGOs over their tax-exempt status. There have been hearings on Capitol Hill. There have been a number of conservative groups in Washington who have been quite critical.” ... no kidding SOP!

Indeed, the year before that, the Senate held a hearing on nonprofits’ political activity. Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, the then-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the IRS needed better enforcement, but also “legislative changes” to better define the lines between politics and social welfare, since they had not been updated in “a generation.” Unfortunately, neither Congress nor the IRS has defined 501(c)4's sufficiently to this day, leaving the door open for IRS auditors to make up their own, discriminatory rules.

Those cases mostly involved 501(c)3 organizations, which live in a different section of the tax code for real charities like hospitals and schools. The rules are much stronger and better developed for (c)3's, in part because they’ve been around longer. But with “social welfare” (c)4 groups, the kind of political activity we saw in 2010 and 2012 is so unprecedented that you get cases like Emerge America, a progressive nonprofit that trains Democratic female candidates for public office. The group has chapters across the country, but in 2011, chapters in Massachusetts, Maine and Nevada were denied 501(c)4 tax-exempt status. Leaders called the situation “bizarre” because in the five years Nevada had waited for approval, the Kentucky chapter was approved, only for the other three to be denied.

Much more including the TWO churches you told us about yesterday and the NAACP

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/14/when_the_irs_targeted_liberals/singleton/

They remind me of those creepy whoevers over in Syria who are reaching down with their hands and pulling out a persons heart! ..........that's what these cons do... They pick on the poor, the disabled and ALL BROWN SKINS .....