The IRS scandal - when did tax excemption become a right?

[Logan Darklighter]

CattyNebulart wrote:

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Logan Darklighter wrote:

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Conservatives were targeted in exactly the way that would give the advantage to Obama in the last election.

If they wouldn't have affected the election they should not have qualified for that particular tax exempt status they where seeking. In which case the IRS is fullfiulling it's duty by going after taxdodgers... if they ignore democratic taxdodgers however you have a point. 

That right there is PRECISELY the point. Hey - it may suck and be borderline (or even right across the borderline) unethical, but like Jon Stewert said - may as well spread it equally all over. Give everyone a chance to influence the election exactly as much as they can, with whatever means they can. 
Would it be better not to have tax exempt status for everyone across the board? Damn straight! Because that gives the IRS too much power over things! It makes them into an arbiter of the election process, and they already have WAY too much power over us as it is. 

But since it isn't, targeting one group and making sure they can't get that advantage while clearly giving it wholesale to their opposite number - do I really need to spell it out further? Isn't the advantage for "progressive" groups obvious? Isn't it obvious that the 2012 election was influenced greatly by the amount of money that Tax Exempt 501 groups - on the Left - could use, and that conservative groups like the Tea Party were hobbled? 

It's too late to do a recall election of course. We have to live with what we've got. But there are other means of redress. And the process has just begun. It'll be long, painful, and drawn out. And the irony is that, just like with the 1970 Nixon election, it never had to come to this. 

And I still think that Obama should be in prison for murder, so I am hardly one of the administrations greatest supporters.

Er... what? I hold Obama in contempt myself, but I'm not sure I'd go that far. Do you mean in regards to the Benghazi or the Fast and Furious scandals? (And isn't it ironic that I have to ask a multiple choice question about scandals... ) At least I don't think he could be held personally responsible for any deaths. Conspiracy maybe. But murder? I don't see it.