Source: Alan Farnham / ABC News If you think the IRS’s targeting of Americans for their political views is something new, think again. Historians, tax lawyers, civil libertarians and past victims of abuse say the practice goes back to the Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy and FDR adminstrations, all of which reportedly used the agency as a weapon [...]
Source: Sam Stein / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The IRS used “inappropriate criteria” when judging organizations hoping to gain a tax-exempt status and allowed that criteria to stay in place for 18 months, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report obtained in advance of its official release by The Huffington Post. [...]
White House spokesman Jay Carney says President Barack Obama will not jump to conclusions until an independent investigation is finished on alleged IRS targeting of conservative political groups. (May 14)
Source: Noah Rothman / Mediaite Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, joined anchor Thomas Roberts on MSNBC on Tuesday where he said that he did not believe the federal government was complicit in any wrongdoing given the news that the Internal Revenue Service singled out conservative groups [...]
Source: Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg At least two congressional committees plan to hold hearings on the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s admission that it targeted for special attention groups promoting limited government. The momentum for review by the House panels increased with disclosures over the weekend that a Treasury Department inspector general’s report found that top [...]
Source: The Huffington Post During his unsuccessful campaign to be reelected to Congress, outspoken former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh could never quite live down the label of “deadbeat dad” – and on Monday, the issue of his child support payments resurfaced yet again. The Chicago Sun-Times reported late Monday afternoon that Walsh, a Tea Party Republican favorite [...]
Source: Carrie Healey / theGrio Former Tea Party congressman Joe Walsh took to his Twitter account this morning to criticize first lady Michelle Obama for planning to attend the funeral of young Chicago shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton. In his first of two tweets directed at the first lady, Walsh wrote, “‘Heartbroken’ Michelle Obama attending funeral of Hadiya Pendleton. I guess [...]
Source: Peter Hamby / CNN Republican Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina will announce Monday that she’s appointing GOP Rep. Tim Scott as Sen. Jim DeMint’s successor, according to Republican sources in South Carolina and Washington. The announcement will come at noon ET at South Carolina’s state house in Columbia. Scott will become the Senate’s [...]
Source: Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The newly minted Republican Senate nominee in Indiana, state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, recently compared the divide over tax policy to the climate before the Civil War — and cast poorer Americans in the role of those who oppose freedom. Mourdock handily beat incumbent GOP Sen. Dick Lugar in Tuesday’s primary, [...]
Source: Michael Mcauliff / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The potential Republican retreat from a hard-line stance on extending the payroll tax cut comes as GOP leaders have been quietly urging their Tea Party members to be less extreme. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his top lieutenants on Monday proposed extending the 2-percent cut for the rest [...]
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