The more people dig, the more we find out the IRS
has been completely corrupted. It’s not
enough they harassed and punished Tea Party organizations, now we are finding
out Lois Lerner and her fellow travelers were in bed with unions and other
Democratic Party operatives.
Labor organizations were filing separate reports,
one to the IRS and another to the Labor Department declaring different amounts on
political expenditures, and Lois Lerner knew about it. The Daily Caller reported the following:
At the time of the
email, Lerner was the Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS.
Lerner wrote, “We looked
at the information you provided regarding organizations that report substantial
amounts of political activity and lobbying expenditures on the DOL Form LM-2,
but report little to no political expenditures on the Form 990 filed with the
IRS.”
“We believe this
difference in reporting does not necessarily indicate that the organization has
incorrectly reported to either the DOL or the IRS,” Lerner concluded.
Don Todd, the deputy
assistant secretary of the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) at the
time the email was sent, confirmed seeing Lerner’s email and remembering
similar complaints at the time. OLMS oversees labor union financial disclosures
within the Department of Labor.
“The law’s never been
enforced,” Todd told TheDCNF. “The IRS was telling us it would cost more to
enforce the law then they would collect.”
In 2006, the year
leading up to Lerner’s email, the national headquarters for the AFL-CIO
reported no direct or indirect political expenditures with the IRS on their 990
form, leaving the line 81a blank. That same year, the AFL-CIO reported
$29,585,661 in political activities with the Department of Labor.
Also in 2006 the
Teamsters Union reported no political expenditures with the IRS while at the
same time reporting $7,081,965 with the Labor Department.
Again in 2006, Unite-Here
reported no political activity with the IRS and $1,451,002 with the Labor
Department.
In 2005, the National
Education Association also reported no political expenditures with the IRS
while at the same time reporting $24,985,250 with the Labor Department.
Labor union political
spending overwhelmingly benefits Democrats. Todd told TheDCNF Lerner may have
been playing favorites. Lerner has been accused of singling out tea party
groups applying for tax-exempt status.
Lerner acknowledged in
the 2007 email, “The definition of political campaign activity required to be
reported on Form LM2 coincides with the definition of political campaign
activity expenditures required to be reported on Form 990.”
All this was pre-Tea
Party. Makes you wonder how long this
has been going on. I have a
question. Will these labor unions pay a
price for falsifying tax reports? Yeah,
I don’t think so. Some animals are more
equal than others.
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