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Post #1115557

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CatBus
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
6-Oct-2017, 6:29 PM

TV’s Frink said:

Hey, remember a few years back when the Democrats unleashed the IRS on the Tea Party? Turns out perhaps not so much.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/four-years-later-the-irs-tea-party-scandal-looks-very-different-it-may-not-even-be-a-scandal/2017/10/05/4e90c7ec-a9f7-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html?utm_term=.a1c68505d272

Well, it was a scandal, but of a different sort. A change in policy (more overtly political organizations can get favorable IRS classification than before) causes a flood of new organizations jockeying to get that status. The IRS could choose to either review every case on its merits like they used to, which would slow everything down considerably with all the extra cases, or they could try to flag some organizations as needing review, and fast-track the rest. Flagging liberal and conservative keywords was truly a dumb way of going about things, but I can kinda see how someone could make that choice when there might be an even worse consequence for “no, we can’t make that deadline anymore”.

Where’s the scandal? The policy change triggering this flood of applications, that’s where.

Also, not only was the extra review applied evenly to left- and right-leaning organizations, but outright rejections were tilted against the liberal ones. Yeah, some scandal there.