Dems. who targeted nonprofits themselves now trusted to investigate IRS

Sen. Carl Levin
Photo Credit: Bloomberg

It will be ironic to watch Democratic Senators investigate the IRS targeting of conservative political groups after several of them have previously called on the IRS to investigate the tax-exempt status of these same groups in the past.

In the summer of 2012, Democratic Sen. Carl Levin wrote several times to former IRS commissioner Doug Shulman and tax-exempt organizations director Lois Lerner expressing concern that certain “nonprofit organizations were abusing their tax-exempt status and engaging in partisan politics,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Levin listed 12 organizations he wanted the IRS to investigate. “Levin’s list contained nine conservative groups, including Club for Growth, Americans for Tax Reform, and Americans for Prosperity,” the article said. “It also included two liberal groups and one centrist group.”

Now, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chairman Levin will be leading investigations into the IRS for doing exactly what he asked them to do.

The article listed other Democratic Senators who had asked the IRS to “investigate tax-exempt groups they believed were engaged in political activities” during the same years the IRS has recently admitted it was targeting conservative groups for additional scruitiny.

According to the Washington Free Beacon:

Bradley Smith, chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, said Levin should not be surprised that the IRS was caught targeting Tea Party groups when senators are sending these kinds of letters.

“And he wonders why the IRS gets caught using partisan criteria to investigate Americans,” said Smith.

Read more from the Washington Free Beacon here.

DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW

Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!

Success! Thank you for donating. Please share BPR content to help combat the lies.
Janeen Capizola

Comment

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

PLEASE JOIN OUR NEW COMMENT SYSTEM! We love hearing from our readers and invite you to join us for feedback and great conversation. If you've commented with us before, we'll need you to re-input your email address for this. The public will not see it and we do not share it.

Latest Articles