Role of money in elections reform shows what is behind the scandal at Internal Revenue Service | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The scandal regarding IRS targeting of Tea Party related groups is a chance for all people, parties and politicians to push for reform of the use of money in elections.  The issue of classifying political organizations for tax-exempt status is a question of campaign finance   Political posturing will not solve the problem of government accountability until election reform changes the way business is done in Washington.  There will certainly be more political scandals like this until the system is understandable and manageable.

– DC Editors

Boehner on IRS targeting: ‘Who is going to jail over this scandal?’

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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Wednesday took the unexpected step of calling to imprison someone in the U.S. government after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted inappropriately scrutinizing tea party groups to determine if they had abused their tax-exempt status. “Now my question isn…