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So now that we all know the IRS screwed up by granting tax-exempt status to these Tea Party groups, will the IRS correct the problem and remove this status? If not, why?

I find it exceedingly hypocritical that Democrats are willing to join in and cry foul over this issue while not long ago they refused to even investigate the war criminals who lied us into a war for profit which resulted in an out of control govt. spending spree. Some Democrats are even willing to join in with Tea Party sentiment and pay off some of this war debt by cutting our hard earned social safety net.

The Teapublicans are allowed to shut down our entire fffinnnn democracy and the democrats are worried about some IRS audits because they offended some billionaire sponsored teabaggers..... you can all go to hell. Give me a democracy that functions the way it should and then maybe we can worry about IRS workers doing their job right. Why are we paying public servants like Turtleman and the alcoholics in the House? I want my damn money back!

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We need to know where the money is coming from and we the revenue.

Whoa..... It has been a while since I have participated, so here goes;

I agree with Thom about looking diligently at the original problem. Whether the culprits are left wing, right wing, independent, etc., there is no correct way to do the wrong thing. Abusing the non-profit status to promote political antics and manipulations is as low as one can get. What big money and shady motives have done to our Democracy is horrifying and demoralizing. When I stop reeling from the shock of it I am furious. We all paricipate when we don't stand up and call it what it is. Criminal!Treasonous!

I agree that Congress is at the root of the trouble and that means we the people for voting in the self-serving minions of the disgustingly wealthy. We deserve what we get. This is our government and if we would stop for just a minute and stop the detached and cynical judging and instead get into action, we might have a chance at redeeming ourselves to our children and grandchildren. Obama's awful mistake is that he began to drink the same koolaid, I think, right after he was sworn in the first time. Something happened which significantly changed his tone, approach, priorities and subdued his passion. I think he got an offer he couldn't refuse when he accepted the invitiation to the White House before the Bushes finished their term. He talks to us as if he were narrating an infomercial. He has taken and put up with immense disrespect. I truly believe in and adhere to the principle of turning the other cheek, but I do not subscribe at all to being a doormat or whipping post. He allows those in oppostion to him to set the rules of engagement and he follows their lead, so sad.......... Some martial arts of the mind would be a big improvement, using their strength against them. One man is not able to effect real change. It must come from us, he actually said that in a couple speeches after being elected. We must mandate or else nothing can truly happen. We must stand up to those who will ALWAYS take more than their fair share and tell them, HELL NO!

Really, would any of us let our wayward family member take our hard earned money and gamble it away? IN essence that is what has happened. We have let the rich take full on control of us, voluntary servitude.... We can blame any of the lame congress people, but responsibility lies with us.We've let ourselves be manipulated into hating the very institutions that give us leverage against oppresion and abuse, like unions. They are also corruptable, duh... It is up to us to PARTICIPATE and not allow the criminally intended to lead and manipulate. Unions are VITAL, yet many intelligent people have jumped blindly onto the hate unions bandwagon, lemmings! So self-destructive!

The wealthy are systematically dissembling our constitution, government and economic system. I don't know how they can do this without realizing that the very system they have such contempt for is the one that provided them with the means to become so wealthy in the first place. Sociopaths. Sickening. They are now jumping on the IRS, spinning it any way they can, and you can bet that all the corporate news entities will be running with this for a good long while without ever using their vast resources to look at the real story. I call it being spoon fed. Any way these behind-the-scenes wealthy power mongers can distort and confuse in order to manipulate people's thinking, they will. They want power and control so desperately, they will destroy their own country to do it. Psychopaths. Media should not be for profit, nor should education or health care. We can do better than this, we are the problem, thus, the solution.

Are you kidding me! The GOP has always been in favor of profiling. Now that profiling was used to catch tgem breaking the law, they scream like little babies. Everyone known the GOP players routinely violate the tax laws, so it's only human nature got or the IRS agents to go where the lawbreakers are. Yes, I agree, the real story is the GOP supporters breaking the law..

So ptg0, please explain to me why I am going to keep working after I hit $250,000. It would stop wealthy business owners from coming to America pouring billions into your economy though. You sure don't need any more 1% ers do you.

Wow Thom! It seems the trolls are being sent to your site in droves!! Too bad your "flush 'em all out in the daylight" message seems to be totally passed by them.

I remember the time I had 4 cars taken illegally by a police department and then was beat up, accused of variuos crimes for which I demanded a jury tial and was found not guilty on all counts, then took the city of Madison hts. Michigan to federal court where the jackass judge ordered the case dismissed with prejudice.

For that, I was audited by those thugs in the IRS. That pretty much sums up how I spent the 80's and why I feel that this country is run by a bunch of Nazis hiding behind the two "political" parties.

Welcome to the REAL Amerika. Home of the sheep.

Now that you mention it, republiCONs were in control and I recieved no help from the democRATs.

Me? As one in the taxation arena? As one with a friend what drives a truck and has a cute little wife that works part time in a topless club, with 4 kids they're trying to put through college? As one who sees the dollars and cents of what working joe stiff has to pay in taxes? As one who "actually has to cull and verify status to see if clients can take the contribution credit for some the orginzations they donate to? As one who is pretty much fed up with some of the scathing rhetoric some of the non profits actually spew on thier sights? As someone who read an article in respects to what some of the CEOs of non profits make? I say...do away with exempt status all together!!!! MAke the non profits pay the tax for a while and give me and joe the trucker an effin' break!!! Think about it. i pull into 7-11 daily for my after work cocktail and there always seems to be a homeless person hitting me up for some coin. if you quantify all the wealth of all the non profits and they actually gave anything tangible back to the country? Do you think i would really have to be witness to the sheer level of wealth inequality i see daily. And just how much or how many of the non profits, left and right are just lobbies...AUDIT THEM ALL STARTING WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!