Mr. Leen continued: “The 501(c)(4) proposal would represent an outrageous violation of the First Amendment even if it were applied evenhandedly. But, not surprisingly given the source, the proposal is anything but evenhanded. “As the LM-2 disclosure forms unions themselves file with the U.S. Labor Department show, union bosses are the biggest spenders of all in politics. “Yet Big Labor’s political machine, estimated to spend nearly a billion dollars a year on politics and lobbying, will remain almost entirely tax-exempt. “According to the Obama IRS, get-out-the-vote drives financed by workers’ forced dues and fees and conducted by unions, which are established under Sec. 501(c)(5) of the tax code, aren’t ‘political.’ But get-out-the-vote efforts sponsored by 501(c)(4)’s are political! “The IRS’s outrageous scheme must be stopped, and the Committee will stop it — in Congress, or in the courts.”
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:34:35 +0000
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