From USA Today comes the latest development in the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking nonprofit tax status. If this doesn’t raise the hair on your arms, nothing will.
Newly uncovered IRS documents show the agency flagged political groups based on the content of their literature, raising concerns specifically about “anti-Obama rhetoric,” inflammatory language and “emotional” statements made by non-profits seeking tax-exempt status.
The internal 2011 documents, obtained by USA TODAY, list 162 groups by name, with comments by Internal Revenue Service lawyers in Washington raising issues about their political, lobbying and advocacy activities. In 21 cases, those activities were characterized as “propaganda.”
How will you react when it is your views the IRS targets?
How will you react when your views are deemed by a powerful government agency to be simply “emotional” or “propaganda”?
