Topic: OBAMA IRS TIGHTENING NOOSE ON TEA PARTY GROUPS

[oldcoastie6468]

OBAMA IRS TIGHTENING NOOSE ON TEA PARTY GROUPS

by WILLIAM BIGELOW  15 Dec 2013

Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel noted on Friday that Barack Obama and the IRS have a new plan to target Tea Party groups in advance of the 2014 elections.

During Thanksgiving week, the Treasury Department announced a proposal to limit the political activity of 501(c)(4) groups. The Obama Administration claimed that the plan was necessary to clarify confusing tax laws.

The House Ways and Means Committee investigators believe that the proposal was designed by examining Tea Party group applications, figuring out exactly how they proceeded, then limiting those very actions in the new proposal, thus shutting them out of the political process.

House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp said, "The committee has reviewed thousands of tax exempt applications. The new regulation so closely mirrors the abused tea-party group applications, it leads me to question if this new proposed regulation is simply another form of targeting."

Tea Party groups, just as other tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organizations, have to prove that the majority of their work is for "primary" social-welfare purpose if they want to keep their tax-exempt status. The primary purpose of most Tea party groups is illuminating for Americans the size of government and the erosion of the Constitution. They do so through nonpartisan voter guides, speakers forums, pamphlets, or voter-registration drives.

Now, however, the IRS is planning to recognize those very activities as "political activity," not “social welfare,” thus rendering Tea Party groups unfit for 501(c)(4) status.

Thus, the new proposal is not about clarifying tax laws but rather, as Dave Camp stated, "to put Tea Party groups out of business."

The Tea Party today, the Republican party next, then Conservatives of any stripe, then the NRA, then you and your activities. How do you like life in a communist country?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/15/Obama-IRS-Tightening-the-Noose-on-Tea-Party-Groups

[Libertas]

I say damn them and their man-made criminality.  Form whatever associations you want, do whatever activities you want to do, and by the time the courts enter into it...it will be too late!

To Hell with them!!!

[oldcoastie6468]

I say damn them and their man-made criminality.  Form whatever associations you want, do whatever activities you want to do, and by the time the courts enter into it...it will be too late!

To Hell with them!!!

In spades, cubed!!!!!

[warpmine]

It just goes along with what Taylor Caldwell said in 1974 posted in Economics in that anything the progressives created many years ago is used exclusively to punish a free thinking people. Screw all of them to a board and set them out in the cold to slowly freeze to death. There's not one progressive that deserves any compassion from this patriot.

[Libertas]

It just goes along with what Taylor Caldwell said in 1974 posted in Economics in that anything the progressives created many years ago is used exclusively to punish a free thinking people. Screw all of them to a board and set them out in the cold to slowly freeze to death. There's not one progressive that deserves any compassion from this patriot.

You gotta give compassion to get it...progressives give us the finger, or worse, they take our land, our homes, our earnings...they spit on our values and mock our beliefs and belittle us ceaselessly...and we are to what?  Love them for it?!  Reward them?!  Be polite to them?!

Talkin' to the wrong cat if that is your talk!  No more passive allowances to my enemies...they want a tussle?  They better think better about that than they have shown so far...