Citizens United Ruling Thrusts IRS Into Watchdog Role--With Loopholes Galore

WASHINGTON POST:

The Supreme Court's decision this year in Citizens United, which lifted campaign spending restrictions for companies and interest groups, has indirectly thrust the Internal Revenue Service into the more prominent role of overseeing those expenditures.

Read the whole story: WASHINGTON POST

Comments

[wonketteRAWKS]

06:04 AM on 08/23/2010

The IRS will have their hands full what with being a watchdog for the Citizens United Ruling AND the Healthcare Mandate.

[senatortruth]

01:54 AM on 08/23/2010

Hagenj

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/28/democratic-donors-rewarded-with-wh-perks/
********************************

Washington Times, huh??

Are you a Moonie???

LOL!!

[senatortruth]

01:47 AM on 08/23/2010

mandinka

or commun1sm under barak
*******************************

Or NNAAZZIISSMM, your FAVORITE,

under TRAITTORS Buhs and Cheeney...

[senatortruth]

01:45 AM on 08/23/2010

Hagenj

Get rid of the IRS in replace it with a national sales tax. Too many freeloaders not paying any taxes in this country.
**************************************

Actually, THAT would be the CORPORATIONS like BP and Exxon,

as well as the rich, who have loopholes that allow them to pay NO TAX...

[G52]

03:49 AM on 08/23/2010

CO-SIGN!

[farmilyman]

04:39 AM on 08/23/2010

Yes only the shrinking middle class pays taxes.

[atomic]

01:33 AM on 08/23/2010

If the tea baggers stood for what they say they do this would be their biggest issue .. but not a word about it from them.

[senatortruth]

01:46 AM on 08/23/2010

That's because they aren't "patriots", but TRAITTOR RapePublics like their "messiahs",

Buhs and Cheeney the MUUURRRRDDDDEEERRREERRERS....

[Free to Choose]

10:34 AM on 08/23/2010

homophobic slurs do nothing to advance your agenda

[lilma]

12:01 AM on 08/23/2010

The president mention this in his State of union speech. the msm and the republicans raised he!!. Remember Roberts shaking his head in denial. All the trolls posted negatives remarks about the president comments. Palin tweeter, Beck calling the president socialism, Limbaugh calling him elicits, Rand Paul taking away our constitution rights. All need to apologize to this president. But I won't hold my breath.

[CarolinaYankee]

10:35 PM on 08/22/2010

The crooks of IRS in charge of catching the crooks, yeah like that will happen..Thanks for nothing Roberts you are some he!! of a judge.

[mariusvinchi]

10:14 PM on 08/22/2010

Given the option between the IRS or the FEC as a "watchdog," I'll take the IRS any day of the week! The FEC is the most feckless group of individuals ever assembled...

[pene]

09:31 PM on 08/22/2010

Now all we have to do is elect a few teabaggers, dismantle the IRS, and ...POOF! No more American Democracy!

Couldn't have been easier!

[Hagenj]

11:33 PM on 08/22/2010

Get rid of the IRS in replace it with a national sales tax. Too many freeloaders not paying any taxes in this country.

[mandinka]

11:38 PM on 08/22/2010

unfortunately its the dems base

[MinerSam]

07:22 PM on 08/22/2010

Someone's got to protect thos who have been protecting We the People from being Switboated
By the Republican's benefactors as the country continues it's 30 year march -toward IL Duce
under Republican ideology

[mandinka]

11:39 PM on 08/22/2010

or commun1sm under barak

[Hagenj]

11:55 PM on 08/22/2010

run on sentence much?????

[Kevin Atlanta]

07:20 PM on 08/22/2010

Not since Dred-Scott has any Supreme Court Ruling been as obscene as the Roberts Corporate Supreme Court in Citizen's United.

The SCOTUS had a recto-cranial inversion that is even more amazing than the gyrations of Thomas and the insaniTEA.

CONservatism is a disease; treatable with education and medication.
God loves the CONservative but hates the CON.

[UpNorthGuyWI]

09:23 PM on 08/22/2010

It evens the playing field with the Democrats big daddy donors such as Soros, and SEIU

[Kevin Atlanta]

10:38 PM on 08/22/2010

Enjoy living in that Faux Spews fairly unbalanced bubble?

Citations? Proof? Or are you just Holy Republican Cults of Jesus Inc and insaniTEA lying again?

[Msquad99]

11:00 AM on 08/23/2010

And the right wing's Koch family.

[mandinka]

11:40 PM on 08/22/2010

Really that the killing of babies and they have no rights, and separtaion of church and state are the 2 worst decision in the past 100 years all by a dem appointed SC

[Msquad99]

02:42 AM on 08/23/2010

The separation of church and state is very important. Remember the Inquisition?

[ibsteve2u]

06:02 PM on 08/22/2010

The IRS as the watchdog over democracy because a bunch of people who don't like to pay taxes bought admission to the White House for nominal Americans whose Supreme Court nominations in turn were primarily designed to give those groups representation on the Supreme Court?

Gee...guessing this won't slow the efforts of those groups to reduce the IRS' ability to ascertain whether or not the members of those groups are hiding income offshore.

[floodberg]

06:58 PM on 08/22/2010

Excellent, Ibsteve2u, I'd fan you but it's too late for that, so here's a fav!

[new beginning]

11:24 PM on 08/22/2010

Isn't ironic that "tax cheat" Geithner has been put in charge of enforcing penalties against other tax cheats?

[Hagenj]

12:00 AM on 08/23/2010

39 former members of goldman sachs in WH appointed positions in this administration and 15 in GW's. Both these partys are polluted with corruption.

We have the fox gaurding the hen house.

[MyFatCat]

05:16 PM on 08/22/2010

Sorry all--I was responding to mandinka. Posts seems to be going up slow today.

[MyFatCat]

05:15 PM on 08/22/2010

Data, please. Links will do, but they have to be to actual research sources.

[SupremeIdiot]

04:42 PM on 08/22/2010

Publically financed federal elections.

[mandinka]

04:48 PM on 08/22/2010

sure just make sure you tax return is used not mine

[SupremeIdiot]

04:55 PM on 08/22/2010

Reall\y? so you can tell the government where you want your tax money to go?

How about you stop shilling for big corporations and let us all know why large corporations have more of a 1st amendment right than an actual person?
Tell us why large corporations can influence elections and basically buy elected officials at whim while real people sit on the sidelines only wishing they had that kind of influence.

[floodberg]

07:52 PM on 08/22/2010

Public Only Campaign Financing? SupremeIdiot, I'm in 100%, and add limits onto the length of the campaign like the French; when you can begin organizing, advertising, etc., types of donations allowed and limits, etc.

[mandinka]

11:43 PM on 08/22/2010

yea they have a balanced budget ready for that as well