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The IRS targeting scandal was fake, but IRS budget woes are a real problem

  • Written by Philip Hackney, James E. & Betty M. Phillips Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
imageMembers of the tea party movement seen rallying outside the Capitol in 2013. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Conservatives have been seething since 2013 over what they say was an unfair and imbalanced effort by the IRS to scrutinize right-leaning organizations more closely than other groups seeking nonprofit status.

As a new report from the Treasury...

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