The IRS has a sordid history of doing this for political purposes. The IRS targeted anti-war groups during the Johnson and Nixon administrations [1]. Was that justifiable by your reasoning, or does it only apply to groups that you put in scare quotes?
It's worth noting the IRS also targeted various Jewish organizations (eg Z Street) as well, not just those critical of the government and taxation like the Tea Party.
Clearly the IRS has a problem with targeting bias.
A fund? To what, pay the IRS to target specific individuals? After the IRS targeting controversy [0], I would highly doubt the IRS would accept that money.
“In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under the Obama administration, revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes.”
Further in the article you’ll learn that conservative groups were targeted more than left leaning groups.
This is not wholly accurate. While it is true that under the Obama administration some conservative groups were inappropriately targeted by the IRS, a report released by the Treasury Deparment's Inspector General in 2017 found that such inappropriate targeting dated back to 2004 and had affected liberal organizations as well, meaning the misconduct was non-partisan in nature [1].
Lois Lerner, head of the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt groups... acknowledged that the behavior was “absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. That's not how we go about selecting cases for further review. The IRS would like to apologize for that.”http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/15375-irs-admits-i...
Can you point me to any examples of the IRS being “used against political opponents”? Please specify who the opponents of the IRS are in your examples.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
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