but you have some context to put this in. i know we spoke to julian bond about what they were faced with when he was chairman of the naacp in 04. but you have another group that was someone through the obama years that didn t get the filing status that it wanted. yeah. that s right, thomas. it s obviously problematic asking these tea party groups to go through a few additional questions when applying for a 501 c 4 status. we have to remember under the obama administration, the only tax exempt major political group that actually lost its tax exempt status is a democratic group. emerge america. this organization that trains women to run for office. last year the obama irs revoked their tax exempt status. you know, i m kind of worried about this entire scandal because it s obscuring some of the bigger issues with the irs. since citizens united, we ve had a huge ballooning of all these
for 2012. it s 2013 but you still have until monday to put money in to count i want as a deduction for 2012. it s important know. if you are self-employed there may be ways you can extend that to october 15th. talk to your accountant. what s the biggest mistake people make when they file their taxes? adding. that s actually a fact that the number one mistakes that the irs says people make simple addition. which is why i say if you file on paper still the odds are you re going to make a mistake. file online. double, triple check those numbers and make sure you have the right filing status. thank you so much. and by the way we ll have some of carmen s great advice on our blog. today s tweet of the day comes from poou research center. tax day 29% of americans like doing their taxes, but 5% love it. they include a pie chart which also shows 56% of americans
obama won with 53% of the vote and you can see these swing states went solidly for the president this time around. where are we specifically with unemployment? nevada and florida have unemployment rates that are above the national average. it s also right about where it was when the president took office. but take a look at this, nevada, 11.7%, when the president took office, it was 9.6%. now the rest of the battle ground states are doing better, they are stronger now than when the president got into office and they re still improving. i mean iowa, virginia, new hampshire, all around 5%, ohio you see the significant drop in its jobless rate over the past year. ohio now 7.4%. again, better than the national average. and better than when the president took office when it was 8.6. candy the trend in these battleground states employment is getting better. can the president win on jobs in these states and will that decide the election. yes, it s about jobs, but i think it s abou
that kind of call into question whether they re abiding by those two central tenants of the court s decision and the court s reasoning. they ve been able to take advantage of these two loopholes that we found. one was a bureaucratic filing change, that allowed them to switch their filing status, so they don t have to file these pre-primary reports that would otherwise be required, if they aired ads in the run-up to a primary election, like the new hampshire primary, south carolina primary, where we re seeing a ton of super pac ads. well, they switched their filing in the last week or two, several of them have, and now they won t have to report until january 31st. that s well after the iowa caucus, new hampshire primary, south carolina primary, even the florida primary will have already seen votes cast and probably gone a long way to deciding who is going to be the gop nominee, which raises the possibility of the nomination having been decided in large part as a result of these super pa
protection stuff and financial reform is everybody in america, you re on your own, protect yourself, don t do an investment unless you understand it. if you e-fe oe-file, within hours after you receive that they got your e-file, you can type in the search window, where is my money? you will need your social security number, filing status. and exact amount of your refund. you can get instant feedback. let s talk about survey that was conducted. big research outlets asking people, do you believe u.s. government is wildly spending your tax dollars? in general what do people say? 12.4% said yes.