Trump is looking to use the IRS for his own political ends. Nixon tried it too

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Trump is looking to use the IRS for his own political ends. Nixon tried it too

From utilizing tax data to trace immigrants without legal status to threatening Harvard University's tax exemption, President Trump has been trying to use the IRS for his own political purposes, in ways that may seem unprecedented.But they're not. Former President Richard Nixon laid the groundwork more than four decades ago, when he tried to use the tax collector to punish his enemies and assist his friends.\"One of the things that Nixon did consider was threatening the tax-exemptions of universities,\" says Joseph Thorndike, director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts. \"And that sounds very familiar if you're reading the ..