Lois Lerner ignored political expenditures (not) reported by unions

not a smidgen of corruption

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In 2007, Lerner responded directly to a complaint that some major labor unions reported completely different amounts of political expenditures when filing with the IRS and the Department of Labor.

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Thanks Obama!

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this was not done on direct orders from the White House.

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“The IRS was telling us it would cost more to enforce the law then they would collect.”

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That is a half-truth. The unions would have had a choice of either informing their members that the portion of their dues spent on lobbying was nondeductible to the members, or the unions could have paid a 35% tax on the lobbying expenses. Since the unions could have elected to not pay tax there was a possibility that the collections would have been less than the costs of enforcement.

Examining the amounts of lobbying expenditures would have been pretty straight forward. The IRS could have requested copies of the LM-2s, and asked the unions to explain the discrepancies. The burden of proof would have been on the unions. It would have been rather simple unless the unions would have elected to litigate any issues, and I doubt any union would have wanted to invite the level of scrutiny that litigation would have involved.

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Bitch needs to be in jail and anyone that says otherwise supports targeting of Americans by the IRS for political purposes

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You were the first one to mention Obama. Everyone else was pointing the finger at Lerner.

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this was not done on direct orders from the White House.

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I'll sit on this limb and state your reply is a distraction from the point in the OP, which has nothing to do with Obama, and everything to do with a corrupt leader within the IRS.