Remember Obama’s advisors are chess players. Just like Glenn Beck lures Media Matters into looking foolish, when the White House appears to make a huge mistake, consider it might be a trap.<\/p>\n
501(c)(3) is the designation of a non-profit tax exempt organization. That means two important things – money you give them is not “profit” to be taxed, and contributions to a group are tax deductible.<\/p>\n
Donations to political campaigns are not deductible. That means a very firm line must be enforced that these groups not just be passthru shells to allow people to deduct political contributions as charity donations.<\/p>\n
It’s entirely appropriate then for the IRS to make sure a “tea party” group know they can’t endorse candidates and give them money. So at the root, what the IRS was doing is not wrong. It’s only wrong if they are ignoring groups that have names like Progressive, minority, multicultural, gay for equal scrutiny.<\/p>\n
If you don’t want the IRS in your hair, don’t tell people their contributions are a tax write off.<\/p>\n
While people are now chasing the IRS thing, they’re not paying attention to Syria, Benghazi and the e onomy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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