Any and all government "guidance" with respect to political activities are ipso facto violations of the freedoms of speech and press, which freedoms are explicitly protected by the US Constitution. It is immoral, unconstitutional, and outrageous for the government to attempt to "guide" [i.e., control] any of its citizens' political activities. Therefore, the IRS's proposed rule for "Tax Exempt Social Welfare Organizations on Candidate-Related Political Activities" known as "Regulation IR-2013-92" should be withdrawn at once.
While it is not accurate to call the IRS a terrorist
organization, the IRS is definitely a TERRIFYING organization. Millions of
Americans live in dread of its "audits," which trample all rights of
privacy and private property. Such dread also inhibits the rights of free
speech and free press.
The very existence of the IRS is incompatible with the
foundations of the United States as originally conceived, which is why its
existence was unconstitutional prior to the enactment of the 16th Amendment.
That amendment and the consequent creation of the IRS has changed the character
of our country from one inhabited by free and self-confident citizens who could
look to their government for protection against thieves and bandits into one
made up of frightened cowards, who must live in fear of their government that
more and more resembles a gang of bandits.The IRS must not add to its already rampant trampling of individual rights any new abridgement. It must not seek to further silence its helpless victims by this new proposed rule for "guiding" their political activities.
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This proposed rule seeks to reduce the influence of money on
the outcome of elections for public office, even though the money is used
merely for the purpose of spreading ideas and arguments concerning political
candidates and their qualifications for office based on the soundness, or lack
of soundness, of their ideas and programs. The only possible way for the IRS,
or any government agency or organ, to accomplish the objective of this rule is
by means of threatening the imposition of fines for its violation, the payment
of which fines is compelled by the threat of imprisonment.Thus to reduce the influence of money on the outcome of elections, the IRS is proposing to replace it with the influence of THE THREAT OF GOVERNMENT FORCE. Threatening such force is a blatant violation of the freedoms of speech and press, and of free elections as well. Such a rule belongs in China, Russia, or Venezuela, whose citizens are accustomed to tyranny. It certainly does not belong in the United States of America. It should be withdrawn at once and those responsible for its suggestion should be fired.
