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Why Did the IRS Target Conservative Groups?

Tax Revolt

Was it a legitimate reaction to an explosion of tax-exempt electioneering?

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Kevin Drum outlines what I take to be the emerging case for the defense of the IRS agents who applied special scrutiny to tax-exemption applications from Tea Party groups:

Roughly speaking, what seems to have happened is that three years ago the IRS was facing an explosion of newly formed 501(c)4...

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