How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call it Public Welfare

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http://www.propublica.org/article/how-nonprofits-spend-millions-on-elections-and-call-it-public-welfare

http://projects.propublica.org/dark-money/organizations/all

Well now, since everybody is up in arms over the IRS handling of the applications of these so called 501(c)4 organizations, here's a couple of links that may help you to understand that what really happened here with the IRS is the uncovering of a vast right-wing conspiracy to really fund and rig the election process with dark money coming in from all points of the compass.

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http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/14/the-real-irs-scandal/

After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in January 2010, donors flocked to 501(c)(4)s as a vehicle to pump cash into elections without disclosing the source of their contributions. The number of groups applying for social-welfare status has since doubled. In 2012, the news outlet ProPublica examined 72 501(c)(4) applications from groups that claimed to have no plans to spend money on elections. They compared those documents against the subsequent tax returns. Nearly half of the groups found their plans had changed.

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http://www.propublica.org/article/how-nonprofits-spend-millions-on-elections-and-call-it-public-welfare

An investigation by ProPublica, drawing on documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission, offers the most detailed picture to date of how 501(c)(4) groups have used their tax status for purposes likely never intended.

Our examination shows that dozens of these groups do little or nothing to justify the subsidies they receive from taxpayers. Instead, they are pouring much of their resources, directly or indirectly, into political races at the local, state and federal level.

The 2010 election functioned, effectively, as a dry run, providing a blueprint for what social welfare groups are doing on a larger scale today. Records on what is happening in the 2012 campaign will not be available until well after the election.

So, before you go siding with the Rethugs as being singled out, remember it's their game plan that you are acknowledging as being ok, to provide the blueprint for what so called "social welfare" groups,i.e. Tea Party affiliates, can do with campaign finances in the future.

Guess what?, that's also your future as well.