"IRS Seeks to Stamp Out
Voter Information"
SEE:
IRS Proposed Rules:
EXCERPTS BELOW, reprinted unedited for educational purposes:
"The IRS has proposed new regulations that would carve out an exception to federal rules on tax-exempt organizations, regulations that would essentially ban conservative tax-exempt educational organizations from informing voters about federal candidates' voting records before elections."
"The proposed new regulations have no basis in any law enacted by Congress, or provision of the U.S. Constitution, but are instead the result of the Obama administration response to intensive lobbying by the political Left against voter information organizations in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2009 Citizens United decision."
"The new regulations would also automatically classify as “political” mere mention of a candidate that is disbursed just before an election."
"The political motivation of the IRS regulations as a bludgeon against the political Right was made apparent by the fact that the regulations have been proposed only for 501(c)(4) organizational non-profits — used primarily by conservative and libertarian organizations, and not for 501(c)(3) organizations on the Left — such as the NAACP, which spends millions on electioneering and political lawsuits — or on 501(c)(6) labor union organizations."
