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Eh I mean, if Trump throwing a tantrum is how we stumble into anti-trust legislation I’m still for it.

• tasty_freeze 7y ago
  No, that is a dangerous position. If the laws are applied only to political enemies, it is not justice. It also degrades the law, erodes public trust, and undermines democracy. Here is a counter example. 501(c)(4) organizations [1] are non-profits which have certain reporting requirements that are not allowed to do political work. Laws were changed, ostensibly to allow them to do some activities that were in the gray area -- the law said as long as they were mostly doing welfare/social work, then they could keep their status. PACs abused this by claiming they were 501(c)(4) organizations, which allowed them to shield who was bankrolling them. When this was noticed, the IRS started looking into them. The right screamed bloody murder, saying the IRS was being used as a political tool of the Obama administration. And if that had been true, they would have been right to complain, even those the vast majority of those PACs were not really 501(c)(4)s. To this day it is claimed that this is what actually went down, when in fact the IRS looked into PACs from both parties. [2] [1] https://www.thebalancesmb.com/how-the-irs-classifies-nonprofit-organizations-2501798 https://www.thebalancesmb.com/how-the-irs-classifies-nonprof... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy