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Recent annual reports, audited financial statements, and IRS Form 990s
Recent annual reports, audited financial statements, and IRS Form 990s
By Michael B. Thielen
Former Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chair, Professor and RNLA Member Brad Smith has an excellent article tearing down the house of cards that is the argument for the IRS regulation of politics. Smith points out that really this effort to so involve the IRS is an end run around the bipartisan FEC and is based on three myths.
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