What The IRS Needs To Do

Over $4 billion will be spent in campaign ads. Depending on whether it is taxed or not, will depends on a gray area decision: are these ads political.

These ads are called 501(c)(4) based on the classification in the IRS Code that deals with them….. the tax-exempt status under IRC 501(c)(4) of civic leagues, social welfare organizations, and local associations of employees…..

Civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare.

Local associations of employees, the membership of which is limited to the employees of a designated person or persons in a particular municipality and the net earnings of which are devoted exclusively to charitable,
educational, or recreational purposes……..

These exemptions were sought after and got… by the US Chamber of Commerce when the Tariff Act was voted upon 99 years ago in 1913.

An organization that primarily benefits a private group of citizens cannot qualify for IRC 501(c)(4) exempt status. A political party is a private group of citizens. This line of code gives the IRS the right to disqualify any group sponsoring any political ad that can be reasonably deemed to be pro one party or another. It would not affect something like Clint Eastwood’s Superbowl Commercial, although Republicans always afraid of truth, tried to spin that as a Democratic campaign commercial.

In Erie Endowment v. United States, 316 F.2d 151, 156 (2d Cir. 1963), the court, in defining a civic organization, summed up the matter by stating that “the organization must be a community movement designed to accomplish community ends.”

The ad depicting Obama leaking secrets… does not accomplish community ends. The ad correctly depicting Mitt Romney killing a man’s wife by driving head on into a Bishop’s car, … does not accomplish community ends…. Both should be taxed….

The IRS is currently deciding. It will be called out unfairly no matter what its decision will be…

It has the duty to follow the law. If Republicans disagree with the decision, whenever they get enough Republicans inside the Senate to make a change, they may change the law. If Democrats disagree with the decision, whenever they get enough Democrats inside the House to make a change, they… may change the law….

The IRS does not have that option. Their option is to uphold the law... And there is no way, no person unbiased, can realistically say political action advertising, is within the realms of the definition of tax free organizations…..

So, Doug Shulman? Tax them.

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August 21, 2012 at 5:54 pm

anonymous

Republicans – Party like there’s no tomorrow….like there’s no tomorrow.

That should cause thinking republican voters to think – but there WILL be a tomorrow. And time is telling, that 99.9999 % of legitimate climate scientists from around the world, were right all along. Their thousands and decades of various studies, were right all along.

Once upon a time, the words ‘tea party’ brought about pleasant visions of gentle ladies getting together in the afternoon for tea and pleasant talk. So lovely was the tea party, that generations of little girls everywhere imitated it, donning frocks and rosy cheeks, serving sweet drinks and cookies. as they sat their little friends and dollies around their little table. My sweet friends, have some tea?

Opposite of all that was to be good and true, came another tea party, with billion ton gorillas offering any reason under and including the sun to allow smoke stacks of free pouring toxic industrial waste by-products from coal, oil, gas, chemicals, cattle, forestry and various synthetics, into the atmosphere of all good little boys and girls, chemically poisoning their sky for generations and centuries to come, without end. It turns out, the gorillas’ investment at the tea table, is only a fraction of what they earn each year through profits by pollution, so they calculate, it’s a good investment indeed. ‘You greedy heartless bastards. have some more CO2 and like it,’ they said.

One such gorilla is the two headed Charles and David, simultaneously spouting climate denial and terms of politically corrupt propaganda, while throwing money in the simmering tea pot. The one ugly two headed monster alone, has a deadly carbon foot print of hundreds of million of tons of carbon dioxide every year, (earning it billions.) The multi billion dollar gorillas demand to control the conversation at the table, so that it is always, the public who should bear the environmental and financial burden of the resulting toxic (greenhouse) atmosphere, even though the two headed gorilla’s toxic industrial by product alone is costing the public, 50 billion dollars per year. Money talks, tea sippers provide the votes, is how this party functions. So party like there’s no tomorrow?

The average American’s carbon dioxide footprint is 19 tons a year; a European’s is 9 tons; a Chinese – 5 tons, and there is India’s 1.4 tons of CO2 per person. Charles and David’s toxic footprint is disproportionately one hundred million tons each head. Their toxic wealth is enormous; their breath and words are also deadly overpowering. There are those who remain around the table gorging on degraded crumpets, hoping to find themselves somehow satisfied, even though their future looks catastrophic. ‘Who cares,’ said a horrid old imbiber. By 2020, I’ll be dead. Let the next generation pay the price with their very lives.’ Aaah ha ha ha. Cheers rose from the various fringe groups, eager to vote against anything decent, sane and life sustaining.

Every child’s worst nightmare has become their everyday lives. In one generation, a child’s hopeful tea party changed to a tea party campaigned by depraved billion ton toxic gorillas, demanding that the public must accept a life altering atmospheric brew, with plenty more planned in the CO2 pipeline.