Shame On The IRS

       Have you been following the IRS scandal? You know, the one where IRS employees have been targeting conservative groups who were applying for tax exempt status as public service organizations. This outrages me. How could these people get away with this targeting for as long as they did? There simply is no place in our society for this kind of outrageous activity.
       Apparently any Tea Party group or group with patriot in the name applying for the tax exempt status of a non-profit public service organization was put through all sorts of extra hoops. They were required to provide proof of the public service end of their work and proof they were not engaged or will not engage in political activity.
       I can't believe the IRS isn't targeting  progressive organizations applying for tax exempt status as well. The additional information they were requiring of the conservative groups, is information they should require from all or any group applying for tax exempt status.
       The problem is that groups in the past have misused this classification. They claimed to be public service  non-profits, but in fact were engaged, almost exclusively in political attack ads and advocacy. The real problem is not that the IRS targeted conservative groups, but that it did not target progressive or liberal groups as well.
       Even more importantly, they should have been prosecuting groups who misused that status in the recent past. That would have been a better tool to discourage misuse of that particular tax exempt status by political groups.