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CMV: There is nothing wrong with the IRS targeting Tea Party members

This is something I've heard people try to hold against the Obama administration. It's also something the IRS themselves tried to blame on low level employees, rather than just owning up to it as a sanctioned policy.

While the thought of "weaponizing the IRS" is scary, I don't feel like its fair to describe targeting the tea party in that way. We're talking about a group of people banded together for the most part around their desire to not pay taxes.  When allocating limited resources, they seem like a great place to look for people who are evading taxes.  I don't think they should be unnecessarily burdened by said investigations, but I don't think there is anything wrong with investigating people who are so vocally trying to avoid paying taxes to see if they are in fact already not paying taxes.

EDIT:

handed out plenty of deltas already, my view has been sufficiently changed.
gpt
Do you think that it would be acceptable for the cops to start pulling over and targeting anyone who had a #BlackLivesMatter sticker on their car?  After all, that's a group of people who've banded together to protest the police, right?  So wouldn't it make sense that they'd be breaking at least SOME law?  Might as well check, right?

The government exists to serve ALL people, not just the people that agree with the party in power.  

If you agree that this is okay, then it would make sense for the Trump administration to purposely target anyone who's being particularly vocal on Facebook about their displeasure with the election results, because those people are going to be the most likely to not pay taxes in protest.