Engaged Nation
It's all over the news. The grimy underhanded maneuvers of the Internal Revenue Service, but were you surprised? Certainly, not I. For kicks and giggles let's take a look at what being said shall we...
Everyone Has An Opinion
"If we're going to have a special set of rules for groups focused on elections and lobbying -- which we should -- then we need rules that mark clearer lines between political and nonpolitical activity, and an agency with the will and the resources to enforce them. This scandal could be an opportunity to make the system work better. Or it could cause it to deteriorate even further". ~ Excerpts from The Real Risk of the IRS Scandal by Paul Waldman is a contributing editor at The American Prospect and the author of "Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success." Follow him on his blog and on Twitter."Ezra Klein explains, it was a response to a very real problem: how do you draw the line between political advocacy, which is a taxable activity, and policy advocacy, which is not, if the advocate organizes itself as a 501(c)4? "
Wait We Have Breaking News
Go ahead Mr. President
"Americans have a right to be angry about, and I'm angry about it,"
"It should not matter what political stripe you're from. The fact of the matter is, the IRS has to operate with absolute integrity."
What's To Come
"Whatever comes of the investigations into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups, the scandal promises to have broad repercussions in Washington, potentially through the 2014 midterms. " Excerpts from Decoder Wire | Five ways the IRS scandal will change Washington
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