Shock: IRS’ own data shows there was no 2010 “surge” in tax-exempt apps

The lies just keep stacking up:

A number of people have sought to explain the IRS targeting of Tea Party, patriot, and 9/12 group applications — as well as those from other conservative groups — for “specialist team” treatment (mainly delays and excessive and inappropriate questions) in 2010 by pointing to theΒ Citizens UnitedΒ decision that year allowing for unlimited, undisclosed fundraising by such groups. That’s the explanation IRS official Lois LernerΒ gave a week agoΒ when she first revealed that the agency had improperly handled a slew of applications — the political shorthand was a mistaken attempt to deal with a surge in applications.

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ButΒ Todd Young, a Republican congressman from Indiana, pointed out atΒ Friday’s House Ways and Means Committee hearingΒ with former acting IRS commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George that this was not the case, according to the very data the IRS provided to the Treasury IG’s office.

There were, he noted, actually fewer applications for tax-exempt status by groups seeking to be recognized as social-welfare organizations that year than the previous one, according to this IRS data. The real surge in applications did not come until 2012 — the year the IRS stopped the practice of treating the Tea Party class of groups differently from others.

Worse still? This –>Β IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

Keep writing your House and Senate reps to demand answers. Β The mainstream media and leftist politicos want this scandal to die, but we can’t let it.

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They’ll be overseeing ObamaCare, too. Frightening.

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