Is the IRS Being Used to Silence Tea Parties?

There are Tea Parties and Tea Parties. There's no central organization. Some Tea Parties are registered as political nonprofit groups. Some aren't. At least one Tea Party known to me is licensed as a small business.

Last summer, in a moment of alarm and despondency, I thought about listing the Cat Sanctuary as a charity, but I've not done it. What you are reading is a web business that's not yet actually doing business. It's definitely Tea Party--or a Tea Party--and I would love to notify the IRS that this site is generating a taxable income. As a taxable entity, it's currently listed as a spin-off from Grandma Bonnie's Allergy-Ease Foods, although this may well change by the time this site becomes a taxable entity. If you'd like to boost a senior-owned business while we still are one, that gold-tone "Donate" button on the Greeting Page should work...hint, hint.

However, if the Internal Revenue Service is merely indulging their curiosity about the connections among Tea Parties by trying to collect printouts of all of our web pages and social networking activity, they'll find that many of us--I suspect most--don't know each other's real name, much less each other's political agenda. And I can testify that no other Tea Partier has been sending me money. This could change, and the sooner the better, but while this site has received a few Bens in support from a church and a business (other than Grandma Bonnie's), as of today we've received no support from the Tea Party as such.

If the Tea Partiers in Ohio who've complained to The Blaze's Mike Opelka are suspected of something other than just sharing our political opinions, backing candidates (not necessarily the same ones), and promoting each other's books, they have only themselves to blame. I don't know any of them. I don't know what they're doing or whom they're backing; on this web site there's at least one post about a Virginia House Bill that I know is officially opposed by one Virginia Tea Party and officially supported by another. The article linked below is the first I've heard that there is something called the Portage Tea Party:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-obama-using-the-irs-to-silence-opposition-voices/

And if anybody out there wants a printout of this blog, including all the links that are still live at the time of printing, all they have to do is send a payment for printing and shipping. It won't be as cheap as printing everything for yourself (figure $1 per printed page) but I'd be delighted to do it for you.

No worries, Gentle Readers. The only things about this web page that aren't available to the whole wide world are our real names, addresses, E.I.D. and Social Security numbers, and the I.R.S. has already received those (not via the Internet). In any comments or advertorials, please bear this in mind.