News broke yesterday that President Obama asked acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller to resign amid the scandal that, for once, is now causing the press to be somewhat interested in doing their jobs (I just heard this from Jonah Goldberg on Fox News). But what's interesting in all of this is that Miller was scheduled to leave in June anyway.
Wow, the courage...
If you have the time, please read this post on Ricochet, which gives an in depth account of the unlawful methods of the IRS.
Lastly, please read this take on the liberal argument that Tea Partiers, taking advantage of the evil ruling in Citizens United, more than doubled the creation of advocacy nonprofits soon after the ruling so that they would begin receiving tax exempt statues (I just heard this argument myself from Juan Williams):
Applications for tax exemption from advocacy nonprofits had not yet spiked when the Internal Revenue Service began using what it admits was inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups in 2010.
In fact, applications were declining, data show.
Top IRS officials have been saying that a “significant increase” in applications from advocacy groups seeking tax-exempt status spurred its Cincinnati office in 2010 to filter those requests by using such politically loaded phrases as “Tea Party,” “patriots,” and “9/12.”
Both Steven Miller, the agency’s acting commissioner until he stepped down Wednesday, and Lois Lerner, director of the agency’s exempt-organization division, have said over the past week that IRS officials started the scrutiny after observing a surge in applications for status as 501(c)(4) “social welfare” groups. Both officials cited an increase from about 1,500 applications in 2010 and to nearly 3,500 in 2012. President Obama ask Mr. Miller to resign on Wednesday.
The scrutiny began, however, in March 2010, before an uptick could have been observed, according to data contained in the audit released Tuesday from the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration.
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