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| Vulnerable Dems want IRS to step up | |
| 2014-02-13 | |
| ..will Andrew Joseph Stack one day become a folk hero.? Sheesh... HT: Drudge Senate Democrats facing tough elections this year want the Internal Revenue Service to play a more aggressive role in regulating outside groups expected to spend millions of dollars on their races. In the wake of the IRS targeting scandal, the Democrats are publicly prodding the agency instead of lobbying them directly. They are also careful to say the IRS should treat conservative and liberal groups equally, but they're concerned about an impending tidal wave of attack ads funded by GOP-allied organizations. Much of the funding for those groups is secret, in contrast to the donations politicians collect, which must be reported publicly. One of the most powerful groups is Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. It has already spent close to $30 million on ads attacking Democrats this election cycle. "If they're claiming the tax relief, the tax benefit to be a nonprofit for social relief or social justice, then that's what they should be doing," said Sen. Mark Begich (D), who faces a competitive race in Alaska. "If it's to give them cover so they can do political activity, that's abusing the tax code. And either side." Asked if the IRS should play a more active role policing political advocacy by groups that claim to be focused on social welfare, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) responded, "Absolutely." "Both on the left and the right," she said. "As taxpayers, we should not be providing a write-off to groups to do political activity, and that's exactly what we're doing."
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| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #9 Exactly how large is a smidgen? Because I don't think that word means what he thinks it means. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-02-13 22:36 |
| #8 ..(Progressive) Woodrow Wilson signed it into being primarily for the power, and only secondarily for the $.? |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-02-13 21:37 |
| #7 apparently a purge of IRS agents, middle management, and political hacks is in order next administration. If they misused their position for partisan gain, they should lose their pensions. Enact the law NOW over Obama's veto. Let the Dems sweat THIS for November |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-02-13 21:10 |
| #6 I love the smell of Democract desperation in the morning... |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-02-13 18:56 |
| #5 I don't think the left is confident they've cooked the books enough or there wouldn't be so many showing signs of fear about obamacare. I suspect they feel they are close, but need an election or two still. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-02-13 14:34 |
| #4 These jerkoffs better be sh!t scared if the Pubs take back the Senate in 2014, and the White House in 2016. If the Right had an ounce of balls, they'd screw the Left to the wall with their own gamebook. What goes around, comes around. I'm thinking the Left is confident they have queered the process sufficiently that the Pubs are shut out for good. Heat the tar, pluck the chickens and stretch the ropes. |
| Posted by: Titus Noodleman4728 2014-02-13 14:16 |
| #3 When the IRS starts auditing unions.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-02-13 13:06 |
| #2 Just as the 'Affordable Care Act' isn't, 'Democrats' are't. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-02-13 12:58 |
| #1 Free speech for me but not for thee... Typical donk tyrant. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-02-13 11:43 |