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Of course. Making people fill out forms is vastly worse than robbery. Everyone knows that. It's much more important that political organizations be allowed to not pay taxes based on a law protecting non-political organizations than it is that competing political campaigns not directly sabotage each other.
Seriously, this IRS thing is barely a scandal and it's little more than the pro Citizens United crowd reaping some of what they've sown. This kind of nonsense is what you get with all this anonymous money tossed around. The law states very clearly that political organizations are not entitled to this tax exempt status. These Tea Party groups tried to pass themselves off as non-political organizations. And they got caught. And now they're crying foul because they were examined more thoroughly than others. They wouldn't have been examined at all if they weren't trying to illegally get out of paying taxes.
The key word is "unfairly". It wasn't unfair. Holding people who are trying to tax dodge accountable is not unfair.
Are you really going to claim that very few businesses or organizations don't have a decided political lean while legitimately qualifying for tax exempt status?