My take-a-way from the IRS hearing is that it is mostly bogus. The IRS

[Ninga]

had problems, Mr. Miller testified what they did about the problems, and fixed them. The Cincinnati IRS office asked IRS DC for regulation clarification, and waited for answers that didn't come for months and months.

In the meantime, the time-frame in which the Tea organizations 501(c)4 tax free status was being held up was also the time frame of IRS discovery, putting band aids on the process and making changes. Much of which has fallen through the cracks.

Mr. George, IRS Bush appointee said that he did not find any political agenda with IRS employees.

As I said earlier.....Citizens United was the monkey wrench, especially when non profits could apply.

[BlueCaliDem]

1. I hope that the next Director at the IRS that President Obama appoints

will rescind the "new version" of the IRS clarification that had been in place since 1959 and restore the qualifications for applying for a 501(c)4 to its original and lawful "exclusively" instead of the mushy "primarily". Had the IRS not changed the law {never thought the IRS was allowed to} under a Republican president, this bogus "scandal" would have never happened.

As Rep McDermott said, the whole reason why there was an influx of Tea Party applications was because of CU and corporations, both foreign and domestic, want to flush the political system with mega-dollars.

Returning to the original law - not the IRS rewriting of it, would cut KochBros at the knees.

501(c)(4):

...organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of "social welfare", such as civics and civics issues, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes.[35] An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.[36]

No one . . . and I mean NO ONE can say with a straight face that corporate-backed Tea Party entities are promoting the social welfare of their communities. KochBros and other miscellaneous asswipes like them, just want to hide their donors behind the law.

[Ninga]

2. so well said.