Showing posts with label Internal Revenue Service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internal Revenue Service. Show all posts
Friday, January 23, 2026

US and EU Comparisons

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 From the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Our « culture » https://t.co/RZK5YlpsCj pic.twitter.com/QeOtT75a2e — French Response (@French...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Endorsing from the Pulpit

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Many posts discuss the connections between churches and politics. David A. Fahrenthold at NYT : The I.R.S. said on Monday that churches an...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Shady Fundraising

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Many posts have discussed campaign finance . David A. Fahrenthold and Tiff Fehr at NYT: A group of conservative operatives using sophist...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Center for Competitive Politics v. Harris

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a California state law requiring charities that raise money in the state to disclose the names...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Civil Asset Forfeiture

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Shaila Dewan reports at The New York Times   that the IRS has seized the assets of law-abiding citizens without even an allegation of crimi...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

IRS and Constitutional Education

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At The Washington Post 's Vokokh Consiracy blog, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz writes: It is now well known that the IRS targeted tea par...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

IRS and Obamacare Penalties

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Our chapter on bureaucracy notes that tax law is often a means to do things other than raise revenue. USA Today reports: The IRS , which...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Trust in Government

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The Pew Research Center reports: Public trust in the government, already quite low , has edged even lower in a survey conducted just befo...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Affordable Care Act, Congress, and the IRS

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In Federalist 57, Madison wrote: I will add, as a fifth circumstance in the situation of the House of Representatives, restraining them f...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Archbishop Says Religious Freedom is at Risk

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Our textbook discusses the role of religion in American public life .  Religious leaders have often spoken out on key issues (e.g., Rev. Ma...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Rating Institutions

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The Wall Street Journal reports: American institutions didn’t fare well in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, released Wedne...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

The IRS Story Continues

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The Washington Post reports: The Internal Revenue Service spent an estimated $49 million on at least 220 conferences for employees over a...
Friday, May 31, 2013

New IRS Revelations

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At McClatchy Newspapers , David Lightman and Kevin G. Hall report: A group of anti-abortion activists in Iowa had to promise the Internal ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

IRS, ACA, and Public Opinion

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CNN reports:   A majority of Americans still oppose the nation's new health care measure, three years after it became law, according...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Americans Still Think That Government Is Too Powerful

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Gallup reports: Fifty-four percent of Americans say the federal government today has too much power . Despite the recent controversies f...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

IRS and ACA

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At National Journal , Michael Catalini asks rhetorically:  what is the connection between the IRS and the Affordable Care Act ? The short ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Political Abuse of the IRS: Excerpts from the 1976 Report

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Previous posts have discussed the growing scandal at the IRS.   It has precedents . In 1976, the Senate's Select Committee to Stu...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

A Very Bad Day for the President

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What's the one thing that the Obama administration could do that would alienate the entire press corps?  Brendan Sasso and Jordy Yager ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Targeting Criteria

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ABC News has released a portion of the IRS Inspector General 's report on the agency's targeting of political groups .   One tabl...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

IRS Political Targeting -- The Story Gets More Serious

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The IRS political targeting affair is getting more serious.   AP reports : Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were tar...