The main purpose of a 501 (c)(4) group is supposed to be “public education.” That’s what the group does so its donors can claim a tax credit.
How about the Ohio Liberty Coalition, which sent out emails to its members about Romney campaign events and distributed Romney’s campaign literature?
How about the Alabama Wetumpka Tea Party, which sponsored training for get-out-the-vote training dedicated to the “defeat of President Obama”?
These are just two of the groups that complain that they were targeted by the I.R.S. Well, yeah, and they should have been. This whole “scandal” is an attempt to intimidate the I.R.S. from doing its job.
(Information on the groups mentioned was taken from an article entitled “Groups Targeted by the I.R.S. Tested Rules on Politics,” New York Times, May 27, 2013, p. 1. The opinion expressed, however, is mine alone.)
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