Tea Party statement on IRS targeting

[Warlord]

Judson Phillips, whose Tea Party Nation held the sole "National Tea Party convention" in 2010, says he was only stunned the IRS apologized."

"It isn't just 2012," says Phillips. "This goes back to 2009 with the formation of the Tea Party movement. I've heard stories of the IRS taking years to deliver needed documents and demanding massive amounts of information to 'process' the paperwork for non-profit status. I think Congress should hold hearings into this. If anyone believes this was just a couple of low level employees doing this, I have some ocean front property in Tennessee for sale. This is why the IRS should be a totally non-partisan agency, removed from the control of the administration. In the 90's, the Clinton IRS routinely audited Clinton's enemies. While it has not been nearly as bad under Obama, this kind of 'targeting' is way out of line."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/05/10/tea_party_leaders_understandably_annoyed_that_the_ irs_investigated_them.html

(http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/05/10/tea_party_leaders_understandably_annoyed_that_the_ irs_investigated_them.html)

[Warlord]

The IRS will of course never investigate the SPLC and its tax-exempt status, its mountains of cash or its little fulfillment of its stated mission.

That's one corrupt organization and believe me I've seen a few over the years!

[kathy88]

I would LOVE to see the SPLC get a full and complete independent audit.

[Warlord]

Hell yes, hopefully under the next Republican admin because they cannot seriously keep their tax-exempt status in my opinion.

It's a joke.

[Lucille]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJ6q6RjCMAEM2Ds.jpg

[Warlord]

That's a good one.