IRS and Freedom of Speech

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Who will decide what is allowed and what is not allowed as far as free­dom of speech is con­cerned?

This is scary stuff folks and not for the rea­sons you might think.

Con­sid­er this what if some­one said that you can only have just so much activ­i­ty as a polit­i­cal group and what if they decide how many polit­i­cal mes­sages you can send in a day.

What about how often you can engage in a polit­i­cal activ­i­ty.

Does this sound strange to your mind?

It should because what this pro­pos­al is could be con­sid­ered ille­gal activ­i­ty.

Where in the con­sti­tu­tion does it say that the IRS shall make up its own rules as it goes?

Want to know more. 

Were curi­ous where the IRS gets its author­i­ty to poten­tial­ly infringe on the rights of Amer­i­cans to free­dom of speech?

Is it not time to make some changes to an inter­nal orga­ni­za­tion that has become so pow­er­ful that they now feel that they have the right to write law.

Source. 

The Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice plans to rewrite pro­posed reg­u­la­tions lim­it­ing the polit­i­cal activ­i­ties of the same type of tax-exempt groups the agency was accused of tar­get­ing after back­lash from GOP law­mak­ers and polit­i­cal­ly active non­prof­it groups.

IRS Com­mis­sion­er John Kosk­i­nen told USA Today on Mon­day that the agency will like­ly “re-pro­pose a rede­fined rule and ask for more pub­lic com­ment.” He expects the process will take “until the end of the year and beyond” to com­plete.

Kosk­i­nen said the revised rule will take into account crit­i­cism from con­ser­v­a­tive groups con­cerned the reg­u­la­tions will put free speech rights at risk. Some lib­er­al groups voiced con­cerns that the reg­u­la­tions could bar vot­er edu­ca­tion and reg­is­tra­tion pro­grams, Kosk­i­nen said.

“I think we have to take all of that into con­sid­er­a­tion,” Kosk­i­nen told USA Today. “There are very thought­ful com­ments and con­cerns, and one of the ques­tions that has evoked a lot of com­ment is, once you define what polit­i­cal activ­i­ty is, to what orga­ni­za­tions should it apply in the 501© con­text and how much of it should be allowed? All of that is going to be very impor­tant.”


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