The House has approved a bill slapping the Internal Revenue Service for its treatment of Tea Party and other conservative groups.
The measure was approved Tuesday by voice vote and forbids the IRS from targeting people who exercise their right of free speech. Georgia Republican Rep. Rick Allen is the sponsor, and he says the IRS punished conservative groups for their views.
Republicans erupted in 2013 after the IRS apologized for submitting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to intensive scrutiny. Federal officials apologized for poor management and some top IRS officials were replaced, but the Justice Department decided against filing criminal charges.
The bill was among several curbing the IRS that the House will vote on this week. Monday was the deadline for filing income tax returns.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Abolish the IRS. Income should not be taxed, only luxury spending should be taxed.
What the IRS should do is revoke the tax exempt status of any and all groups that in any way touch anything political. this includes churches and “educational pacs”.
Based on the headline I thought several liberal groups were going to come to the defense of the Tea Party groups. Moveon.org, People for the unAmerican Way, Occupy Wall Street and other similar groups should be joining the TEA partiers in the outrage. The TEA Party was the victims of IRS discrimination in this situation but under a different administration the targets of IRS scrutiny may change to liberal organizations. If the IRS is able to get away with targeting conservative groups now do you think things will be different when a different administration goes after political groups which oppose it?
Abolish the IRS, indict and prosecute all wrong doers who illegally used their office to harass and intimidate conservative individuals and groups. Send them all to jail!!!
If the Dems get the whitehouse we will see a lot more than this. Hillary is the most vindictive old bat on the planet.
Her DSS detail hates her with a passion, just as does the USSS and the Arkansas troopers who worked gov security when Bill was Governor of Arkansas.
Her dad was a mobster and so she hates cops of any kind. Her brother is a mob lawyer who is the one who actually was in charge of the “Pardon -Gate” scandal I the last days of Clinton White House.
If you look at all of her Scandals a clear picture comes into view, she is a high level criminal with a law degree.
She also has been compromised by her closest aid. The woman married to the weinie wagger. This aid is a Muslim activist with direct family ties to the Muslim brotherhood. What better place to have a high placed mole than the person who is whispering in the ear of the SECSTATE, or possibly the next POTUS God forbid!
This woman makes Hillary more toxic than ever!
Hillary or Bernie Sanders will be the final nail in Americas coffin.
I just cannot figure what the misguided Americans see in these people?
PLEASE Pray for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
If Hillary or Bernie are elected it will be the Democratic Socialist States of America.