Phony scandal? Courts open window on the IRS’s political litmus tests

Phony scandal? Courts open window on the IRS’s political litmus tests. “If an IRS agent can reject or stall a pro-Israel group’s application … then no group, no matter what its political orientation or cause is safe from being subjected to a political litmus test designed by any administration of either political party.” The point is well taken but, given the preponderance of Kleptocrats in the federal bureaucracy, few left-wing groups were likely to be affected.

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  • Pisses me off that the media refuses to give more then lip service to Quagmire's goons using taxation to "Punish their enemies". Now they are using the FDIC to go after gun dealers, by rating them as "High Risk", so the banks close their accounts.

    • that's just ridiculous. any right-minded individual would cringe at this prospect.

  • Considering what conservatives, and anyone whose viewpoint differs from President Lady pants, has gone through, I suggest a fitting penalty would be all IRS employees get a colonoscopy while wide awake, and it is performed by a Muslim physician's assistant who gets the minimum fee under Obamacare, and it is performed at an Abortion clinic, in full view of people passing by on the street. Immediately after the procedure the IRS employee gets the tar beaten out of him/her by some angry, angry veterans. Then and Only then would the Tax Nazi's understand what they are doing to decent everyday Americans...