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Contribute to me, it's not tax exempt. you have to pay taxes on it. >> right. >> but they wanted tax exemption. you're asking for the government to look at that. >> right. and that is why they have designations for 501-c3s, 501-c4s. i've seen it with groups i've known, been involved with, church and civil rights groups all having to answer questions, some of which we felt were targeted. but let me bring you back to another group that sought tax exemption. marriage, which was highly political. internal documents from the company said to, quote, expose -- this is what they say about themselves. ...

An agency somewhere does something wrong. >> i'm going to push on this. because i'm wondering and particularly talk to me as an attorney. what has happened around the # 501 c4s and the irs question? it seems bad. but it's not clear to me that even it is scandalous. as far as we can tell, you're talking about an explosion of 51 c4 applications from 2010 to 2012. but 50 c4 denials go from three in 2010 to 8 in 2012. i'm sorry. how is this a scandal? >> right. as we know, these are supposed to be for social welfare anyway, which, you know, the great majority of these very prominent ones are not. ...