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Galraedia

(5,025 posts)
Fri May 17, 2013, 01:55 PM May 2013

The Bogus IRS “Scandal” is an Actual Supreme Court Scandal

Karl Rove is the real poster boy for the so-called IRS (Internal Revenue Service) “scandal” of taking a closer look at applications by political organizations seeking a 501(c)(4) tax status that makes them not only tax exempt but protects their donors with anonymity.

That 501(c )(4) is one sweet deal: not only do these organizations get untraceable, tax-free money laundering for their political activities, they gat a taxpayer subsidy to do it.

And it gets better: some of these activities used to be illegal and people working for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) – Nixon in 1972 – were convicted of law-breaking, as were some corporate donors. In October 2010 in the New York Times, Jill Abramson noted one illegal Nixon operation was run by “a group of Nixon loyalists, some of whom are leading this year’s non-profit push.”

Early in 2010, Karl Rove, who was with Nixon in 1972, founded American Crossroads, a perfectly legal, openly political, tax-exempt 527 organization, with no limits on the amount or source of their contributions, and no spending limits. Despite these freedoms, 527s were still prohibited from openly supporting particular candidates, and they had to register with the IRS, disclose donors, and file reports.

Read more: http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/the-bogus-irs-scandal-is-an-actual-supreme-court-scandal/

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The Bogus IRS “Scandal” is an Actual Supreme Court Scandal (Original Post) Galraedia May 2013 OP
related point: Wasn't Gingrich's whole career shifted into top gear by his systems for forming 527s? patrice May 2013 #1
Rove and his brother were old hands at the mass Mailing thingee. Wellstone ruled May 2013 #2
I agree. (n/t) spin May 2013 #3

patrice

(47,992 posts)
1. related point: Wasn't Gingrich's whole career shifted into top gear by his systems for forming 527s?
Fri May 17, 2013, 02:07 PM
May 2013

Wasn't he a mass-mailing champ who found a good thing in telling CERTAIN KINDS of people how to form these tax-exempt entities and that propelled him to the top of some heaps, that is, until he ran in the primaries last year.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Rove and his brother were old hands at the mass Mailing thingee.
Fri May 17, 2013, 02:25 PM
May 2013

Every think about how all of these Rethugs groups are linked in a major way. What and were is there a common thread? What state or geographic area has or have the most MLM's? What area has the most Ponzi schemes? Hint-----Orin!!!!

Take it to the Bank,baby.

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