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December 18, 2017 11:21 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xTUGNqWmyGs/david-horowitz-freedom-center.html
The Tea Party's baseless claims of IRS discrimination left the agency on life-support, unable to police dark money gushing through "charities"
In 2013, Tea Party activists claimed that they'd been singled out by the IRS for political reasons, and that's why their associated nonprofits were not being approved by the tax agency. In reality, a longrunning investigation found that the IRS was merely incompetent and understaffed, but the Tea Party's tactic of going after the referee rather than the system worked for them: the result was an IRS that has had its resources cut even further, leaving it less -- nor more -- able to evaluate charitable organizations that apply for tax-exempt status. (more…)
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