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In 2013, Tea Party activists claimed that they'd been singled out by the IRS for political reasons, and that's why their associated nonprofits were not being approved by the tax agency. In reality, a longrunning investigation found that the IRS was merely incompetent and understaffed, but the Tea Party's tactic of going after the referee rather than the system worked for them: the result was an IRS that has had its resources cut even further, leaving it less -- nor more -- able to evaluate charitable organizations that apply for tax-exempt status.
The result is a dark-money free-for-all in which the IRS effectively rubberstamps anyone who claims to be a charity without any meaningful scrutiny, and where the charities it approves are able to freely file inadequate and misleading paperwork about the money they take in and what they do with it.
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https://boingboing.net/2017/12/18/david-horowitz-freedom-center.html
This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
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