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IRS Audits of Charities Up
79% Under Obama
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By:ScarletPimpernel, 2/5/2013 3:34:04 PM
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| An analysis by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) figures has found that audits of tax-exempt charities have increased 79% under President Barack Obama. [Snip] The GAI’s findings come on the heels of a controversial White House gathering last month with the heads of charitable organizations, wherein the Obama Administration allegedly engaged in “bullying” and “intimidation” tactics to scare charities into supporting Obama’s tax hikes on the wealthy or face the prospect of losing their tax-exempt status.
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Comments:
The Left despises charity because it undermines their vision of a centralized government, where government replaces God. It´s not surprising, then, that 0bama would target charities. I would like to know which specific charities are being audited and which charities were represented at last month´s meeting at the WH.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 2/5/2013 3:37:32 PM (No. 9160317)
Yes! What charities were audited, and what were the grounds for the audits? It is probably uncharitable (heh, heh!) of me to speculate, but much I doubt that greenie orgs are represented.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jmkotow, 2/5/2013 3:42:03 PM (No. 9160326)
I bet Jesse Jackson´s rainbow push was NOT one of them!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
nonsense, 2/5/2013 3:44:48 PM (No. 9160332)
Chicago style Bullying.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JimS, 2/5/2013 3:49:57 PM (No. 9160339)
I really now am at the point of targeted terminations
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 2/5/2013 4:06:53 PM (No. 9160360)
Ve vil punish you, ruin you, if possible.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Stlouislaxbros dad, 2/5/2013 4:13:05 PM (No. 9160369)
Our government is now in the hands of evil men. And it is the work of so many of the "good people" who have handed it to them.
How proud they must be.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rubinski, 2/5/2013 4:19:46 PM (No. 9160379)
It´s just the charities that support causes which Obama does not support, I would presume.
I would be arrested if I truly spoke my mind on some things.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 2/5/2013 4:35:15 PM (No. 9160397)
This president and his Marxist friends would prefer no charities be allowed to exist including Christian churches. The only religion they worship or acknowledge is their great god the state.
Charities are the state´s competition for control of all benefits. You should only look to the federal government for money and comfort. These people, the statists, are completely out of control now.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
big red navy cheif, 2/5/2013 5:10:17 PM (No. 9160429)
I´m still waiting for the explanation of the Gibson guitar raid. These guys have been bullies for years, this is nothing new.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
realrep, 2/5/2013 5:11:32 PM (No. 9160430)
Follow the money. When ´we the people´ give to charities and take the legal tax deduction, there is less money for the gov´t to extract from us.
If they can decide that certain charities are ´contraband´, the charity closes and VOILA!! more tax revenue (and vacations) for our dear leader.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rubberneck, 2/5/2013 5:35:43 PM (No. 9160453)
There is no reason that charities should be doing the work that perfectly capable government bureaucrats should be doing. /sarcasm
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
birddog, 2/5/2013 5:58:13 PM (No. 9160495)
Private people giving private money to private people get audited 11,111 times(interesting number, that). How many Govt.agencies could have been audited for waste, fraud and abuse of TAXPAYER funds instead?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Grambo, 2/5/2013 6:22:35 PM (No. 9160530)
The Left needs dependent people and charities cut into their base. For proof, look at the IRS charitable deductions by Democrats vis a vis Republicans.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
uno, 2/5/2013 6:23:39 PM (No. 9160534)
I´d put good money on a bet that sez there ain´t a one of ´em with the word "Black" in the name of the charity!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 2/5/2013 7:01:22 PM (No. 9160577)
When´s the audit scheduled for the southern poverty law center? It must be on the docket because the splc is one of the wealthiest causes with more than a $100 million trust. Some years the splc spends more money on fundraising than it does in it´s clients --- the purported victims of civil rights abuses. It´s my understanding that the splc operates from lavish HQs in Birmingham. The splc specializes in defending low life illegal alien criminals. That seems like more than enough reasons to trigger an audit, right?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/5/2013 9:19:08 PM (No. 9160695)
Coincidence. Nothing to see here. Move on.
[Psst! Are they buying that?]
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 2/5/2013 9:40:53 PM (No. 9160735)
Well, what did you think 16,000 extra armed IRS agents were going to do?
/ sarc & disgust off/
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
colonialAmerican1623, 2/5/2013 11:17:42 PM (No. 9160858)
How about Planned Parenthood ? Jesse ?
How about the nonprofits that take donations and give them to another group ?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/6/2013 5:18:39 AM (No. 9161010)
I can bet that muslim charities to jihadists wasn´t part of that 79%.
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