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The real IRS scandal has more to do with budget cuts than bias

  • Written by Philip Hackney, James E. & Betty M. Phillips Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
The real IRS scandal has more to do with budget cuts than biasMembers 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 effort by the IRS to scrutinize right-leaning organizations more closely than other groups seeking nonprofit status.

As a report from the Treasury Department’s ins...

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