{"id":5461,"date":"2013-05-21T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2013-05-21T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:13:48","slug":"wall-street-journal-retorts-to-my-irs-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/wall-street-journal-retorts-to-my-irs-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal Retorts to my IRS article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Wall Street Journal<\/strong> published a letter today in response to my article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324715704578482823301630836.html\">A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting<\/a>.&#8221; The story generated more than 260 comments online, including plenty of thoughtful observations. Reposted below are a few of the testier comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324767004578489123539200596.html?KEYWORDS=bovard#articleTabs%3Darticle\">Charitable Giving and IRS Abuses:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The general outrage over the IRS auditing political targets on their tax-exempt status goes back a long time (&#8220;A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting&#8221; by James Bovard, op-ed, May 15). But strangely, the most straightforward solution to the outrage isn&#8217;t mentioned: the ending of tax deductibility for charitable, philanthropic and religious contributions under both personal and corporate income taxes. Then the IRS need not be called on to determine what is a legitimate tax-exempt organization and which go over the line to become &#8220;political.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Closing such a large loophole in the income tax would bring in much-needed revenue to both the federal and state governments. It would also reduce administrative costs of compliance for taxpayers and reduce the number of IRS agents\u2014particularly those patrolling for fraud out of its Cincinnati office.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that I am not against giving to charities or religious organizations but only against income-tax deductions for doing so. After all, Leland Stanford endowed and built Stanford University in the 1880s even before the income tax existed. Since then, however, Stanford has morphed into what the IRS calls &#8220;a tax-exempt&#8221; organization\u2014attracting many wealthy benefactors whose main interest is escaping the capital gains tax rather than contributing to education. Other universities and tax-exempt organizations are in the same boat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Ronald McKinnon<\/strong><br \/>\nStanford University<br \/>\nStanford, Calif.<br \/>\n&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;&#038;<br \/>\nFrom the<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324715704578482823301630836.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments\"> Comments section<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don Wallace Wrote:<br \/>\nIgnoring the IRS assault-by-audit during the Reagan administration is perplexing and calls into question the author&#8217;s highlighting of Democrat era IRS abuses. History in the hands of a hack is propaganda.<br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<p>Nate Smith Wrote:<br \/>\nThe article seems to say if they did it before to some level ,then its OK to up the ante to steal an election. This is NOW dolt.<br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<p>Richie Lietch Wrote:<br \/>\nI remember the feeding frenzy Watergate years and do not recall any reporter ever mentioning other presidents had been using the IRS to destroy their opponents. I always thought Nixon was alone in such abuses. Now Mr. Bovard reports that Obama is merely following precedent of FDR, JFK, LBJ, WJC and should be given a free ride. Typical liberal double standard.<br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<p>JEANNE PATTERSON Wrote:<br \/>\nThe author says it isn&#8217;t &#8220;surprising&#8221; that the IRS abuses its power and provides evidence that IRS targeting was done in the past. <\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s just something we&#8217;ve come to expect then, right? The subtle message is that we shouldn&#8217;t be too alarmed because it&#8217;s been going on for years. It&#8217;s easier to establish tyranny that&#8217;s introduced slowly, the people are less likely to notice and the rulers can keep pushing, pushing, pushing until one day it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Mr. Bovard, for your efforts to justify the efforts of those who abuse their power because &#8220;they&#8217;ve always done so&#8221;. That they will ultimately destroy our republic is just an unfortunate consequence.<br \/>\n******<\/p>\n<p>EUGENE FAMA Wrote:<br \/>\nThe article starts by saying every president does it but then every example that follows (aside from Nixon) is a Democrat who the liberals now worship. Reagan and Bush aren&#8217;t mentioned. So just like during the credit crisis, the Journal runs yet another article that can&#8217;t condemn Democrats without lumping in nameless Republicans.<br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<p>David Hedenberg Replied:<br \/>\nNotice all the ones you listed than Nixon were Demorats?<br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<p>Bob Martin Replied:<br \/>\nThey left out Truman and Carter along with Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan and the Bushes. Do you see a trend? Its not every Democrat that&#8217;s abusive, just most. Its not every Republican who is clean, just most.<br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<p>PETER HARDY Wrote:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to read this article and not believe part of the author&#8217;s point is that it&#8217;s no big deal. Nothing to see here. Move on. America deserves better and I, for one, have higher expectations.<br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<p>Bill Zdeblick Wrote:<br \/>\nFDR (D), JFK (D), Nixon (R), Clinton (D), Obama (D)&#8230; The pattern is clear! The press investigations only found one Republican &#8211; they didn&#8217;t even look at the Dems. The real threat to our democracy is a BIASED press not corrupt politicians. We the people will kick the corrupt ones out if we are properly informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal published a letter today in response to my article, &#8220;A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting.&#8221; The story generated more than 260 comments online, including plenty of thoughtful observations. Reposted below are a few of the testier comments. 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