I haven't followed the IRS stink at all. Why? Well, I've barely been following the news. One good tornado, as shocking as the devastation, transforms any corporate media outlet into a Worst Destruction Footage Evar re-run machine. Why bother watching again what you've seen once
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We only know the IRS researched based on title traits, not why they did this research. I'm saying big business interests since the Powell Memo was written have acted in more and more aggressive ways, some of which suggest to me that there might be some past problems with right-leaning orgs, enough to prompt a closer look into more orgs with the same characteristics. This is unknown, as far as I know.
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I can't fathom why some have trouble with this concept.
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I'm sure your tongue was so firmly lodged in your cheek when you wrote that that you now have jaw cramps. If not, really? When political power can be firmly secured through campaign donations, sometimes securely enough to warn legislators away from regulating now-profitable hot-button issues, how can one say that the successful business lobbying efforts to dilute and defeat campaign finance reform were "ineffective?" The success of such a quashing almost well and truly destroying effective campaign finance reform, speaks to "a sustained counterattack" that continues to this day.
. . . given that this incident was evidently the product of a major series of incompetent actions motivated by lack of communication. . . .Again, given that we don't-and probably can't-know what started this investigation, it boggles the mind to suggest that the IRS efforts (though a bit of a political lightening rod and minor PR ( ... )
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