Fox News Host Elisabeth Hasselbeck Thinks Air Conditioning Is 'The 'Ugly Side' Of Welfare
Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Thursday suggested that welfare recipients who had air conditioning and cell phones were part of the "ugly side of entitlements."
Schumer Calls For New Legislation On 'Social Welfare' Tax Exempt Status
Someone needs to ask Sen. Chuck Schumer to watch a few of Lawrence O'Donnell's recent segments on this so-called IRS "scandal" regarding the tax exempt status of these "social welfare" groups that are really just political organizations that want to hide their donor list.
Fox Business Host: Cut Government Because 'No One' Died Of Starvation Before Welfare
Fox Business host John Stossel on Thursday declared that government programs should be cut based on the false assertion that "no one" died of starvation in the Great Depression before the modern "welfare state."
Report: IRS-Targeted Groups Tested Limits
The New York Times reports that many of the groups applying for tax-exempt status as "social welfare" organizations were involved in political activities, and that some of the IRS' seemingly strange questions were designed to figure out whether election politics or social welfare was their primary purpose.
More Evidence Key Dark Money Group May Have Misled IRS
New signs emerged Monday that a controversial nonprofit may have misled the Internal Revenue Service not only about its political activities but also about support from a purported donor.
Dark Money Group Told IRS It Wouldn’t Be Political—Then Spent $1 Million On Campaign Ads
By Justin Elliott, ProPublica
A dark money nonprofit group that has run more than $1 million in ads in the Ohio race for U.S. Senate told the IRS last year it did not plan to spend any money to influence elections when it applied for
