“. . . about as constitutionally troubling as it gets.” — The chief of staff
for
the ACLU’s legislative office in Washington,
on the news
that the IRS spent election year 2012 going after conservative groups
“Taxpayers should be encouraged by complaints from Tea Party chapters applying for nonprofit tax status at being asked by the Internal Revenue Service to prove they are ‘social welfare’ organizations and not the political activists they so obviously are.” — A New York Times editorial fromMarch 7, 2012, brushing off the complaints