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Tuesday, 08 December 2015
Obama's weaponized IRS wants charities to track their donor's Social Security Numbers
Do you donate to charitable causes? Then get ready to hand over your Social Security Number along with your check.
An Obama administration proposal to have some nonprofit charities report the Social Security numbers of donors giving at least $250 in one year is raising concerns about security, government overreach and another episode of IRS targeting.
"There's a big caution here. There's a big yellow light that should be flashing for a couple of reasons," Illinois Republican Rep. Peter Roskam tells Fox News.
"Number one, the IRS has not demonstrated its capacity to hold this type of information from confidentiality and a security point of view."
The change would impact organizations that fall into the 501 (c)(3) category, which includes churches and other religious or charitable groups.
The Internal Revenue Service states the proposed change would be optional. But skeptics question whether it will eventually become the only option.
"It's the No. 1 regulation that people are commenting upon," attorney Cleta Mitchell recently told Fox News.
Mitchell argues that the IRS cannot be trusted and that the change could have a devastating impact on charities' ability to collect enough money to survive.
"It would have a dramatic effect on donors' decisions on whether or not to contribute," she said. "You'd see a lot of $249.99 contributions to every charitable organization in America. It's preposterous."
Most charities don't have the staff or the expertise to keep your Social Security Number safe from hackers and thieves. So this proposed regulation exponentially increases our exposure to identity theft.
And the IRS has never been too concerned about our privacy either. But this time they say they're trying to help us.
The agency said the change was proposed in September in part because some taxpayers who were being audited -- or "under exam" -- say they lost their donation records and that charities also having a record would help them verify deductions.
No receipt, no deduction. Seems pretty simple to me.
But tying my donations together in an IRS database? No chance for abuse there, right? No budding Lois Lerners eagerly searching for ways to harass donors to the "wrong" charities? No pattern matching to find all the Republicans who donated to Right To Life organizations so they can be targeted by pro-abortion groups?
This is yet another massive Obama administration regulatory overreach, designed to intimidate Americans who they view as harboring dissenting viewpoints. The Treasury Employees Union overwhelmingly tilts left, and their membership would love to peruse a list of donors to causes they don't like.
Not only that, but imagine how many progressive organizations would love to get their hands on such a list, and how easy it would be for an IRS employee to "leak" it. California's commie attorney general, Kamala Harris, is already salivating at the prospect.
Then envision the Founding Fathers tryng to comprehend how the emanations of penumbras which incarnated a "right to privacy" protective of feminism's holy sacrament of abortion are not applicable to the sanctity of our charitable donations. That sound you hear is Thomas Jefferson weeping from beyond the grave.
On the other hand, a Cruz administration could have a lot of fun with Planned
Parenthood's donor list. So maybe this isn't such a bad idea afterall! Obama's
gonna ram this totalitarian power grab down our throats no matter what we say,
so why not let the lefties know how we're going to use it against them?
It should be fun to watch 'em squirm.
Posted at 11:45 by Chris Wysocki
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