IRS: Government attack dog by Linda Bowles http://www.townhall.com/columnists/lindabowles/lb000711.shtml In recent years, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has shown a propensity to leap like a junkyard attack dog at every suspected and imagined tax violation by conservative organizations such as the Christian Coalition and the Western Journalism Center; and it has with similar, savage enthusiasm executed tax audits on Bill Clinton's accusers, such as Juanita Broaddrick, alleged rape victim, and Paula Jones, alleged pants-dropping target. Given such diligence, you may never have suspected that the same IRS might look the other way at massive and in-your-face violations of its tax codes by liberal organizations such as the National Education Association (NEA). Fortunately, the Landmark Legal Foundation, as an act of good citizenship and in the interest of fair play, has politely reminded a selectively negligent IRS that political activities and expenditures by the tax-exempt NEA "are taxable to the organization unless they are segregated from the organization's general operations and conducted through a political action committee." In a formal complaint, the foundation, headed by legal scholar Mark Levin, presented a veritable mountain of evidence and exhibits to support the charge that the NEA has for a number of years lavishly spent general operating funds on taxable political activities and failed to report them on its tax returns. It remains to be seen whether the IRS is willing to take time from its punitive witch hunts and its routine assaults on private citizens to conduct a serious investigation in response to a serious complaint. As we say in the trade when confronted with a highly unlikely occurrence, "Don't hold your breath!" It is difficult to believe that any thinking person, other than perhaps a trial lawyer, would have the gall to argue that the National Education Association is not a thoroughly partisan, political organization. The NEA knows it has an image problem, and has sought help in dealing with it. Exhibit 23 of the Landmark Legal Foundation's presentation is a copy of a friendly audit by The Kamber Group. The Kamber people identified four perceptions of the NEA which that organization needs to overcome: 1. The NEA is a monolithic union that looks out for No. 1 at everyone else's --including kids'-- expense. 2. The NEA is a giant political arm of the Democratic Party. 3. The NEA is the greatest obstacle to needed education reform. 4. The NEA has nothing new or positive to offer. While Kamber suggested to the union bosses that these perceptions could be overcome with better communications, the reality is that these are not communication problems. This is not a list of misperceptions. This is an accurate diagnosis of a corrupt, self-serving organization that provides money and services to key Democratic politicians like Bill Clinton, Algore and California Gov. Gray Davis in exchange for protection of its monopoly from reform, competition and accountability. The NEA is the largest and most powerful trade union in America. Its open agenda is indistinguishable from that of any other radical, left-wing organization. Its philosophy of secular statism, anti-American multiculturalism, Marxian egalitarianism, and moral relativism permeates the government school curriculum. Like most unions, educational unions protect mediocrity and oppose change. They believe that need, not merit, should be the basis of rewards, that competition is unhealthy, that equality of outcome is more important than the attainment of excellence and that it is the job of government schools to protect children from the wrong-headedness and incompetence of parents. The concept that a school would live or die based upon doing a good job with the children is totally alien, not to mention frightening, to those in charge of government schools. They do not understand or value the power of free enterprise, market forces and competition. For this reason alone, they should not be involved with the education of our children. Historians Will and Ariel Durant defined education as the "transmission of civilization ... our mental, moral, technical and aesthetic heritage ..." They wrote: "Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die ..." The transmission of America's heritage to oncoming generations has been short-circuited. 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