Last week's announcement by the IRS that it would no longer require most nonprofit organizations to provide the agency with the names and addresses of their donors is remarkable for two reasons: First, for the rare sight of the IRS voluntarily giving up some power and, second, for the reaction of the progressive Left and left-wing media.
First, the IRS neither used nor needed the information in its everyday operations.
In 2014 the IRS was forced to pay damages to the National Organization for Marriage, which supports traditional marriage, after an employee, whose specific identity was never publicly uncovered, leaked information on NOM's donors to an LGBT rights organization.
There is simply no need for the IRS to maintain donor information that might be accidentally released, leaked by a rogue employee, or used by unscrupulous politicians to harass political opponents.
Government agencies can be remarkably unwilling to surrender power or information.
Here's the thing: The information the IRS had been collecting was required by law to be kept private! So not reporting the information to the IRS has no legal effect at all on "Dark money." Think about that.
They simply don't want to give up any potential power over Americans and perhaps hope, if the government is already collecting this information, it will be easier to pass more laws intruding on privacy in the future.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-irs-gives-up-power-for-once-and-the-left-goes-nuts
First, the IRS neither used nor needed the information in its everyday operations.
In 2014 the IRS was forced to pay damages to the National Organization for Marriage, which supports traditional marriage, after an employee, whose specific identity was never publicly uncovered, leaked information on NOM's donors to an LGBT rights organization.
There is simply no need for the IRS to maintain donor information that might be accidentally released, leaked by a rogue employee, or used by unscrupulous politicians to harass political opponents.
Government agencies can be remarkably unwilling to surrender power or information.
Here's the thing: The information the IRS had been collecting was required by law to be kept private! So not reporting the information to the IRS has no legal effect at all on "Dark money." Think about that.
They simply don't want to give up any potential power over Americans and perhaps hope, if the government is already collecting this information, it will be easier to pass more laws intruding on privacy in the future.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-irs-gives-up-power-for-once-and-the-left-goes-nuts
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