Melanie Sloan sparked scandal by revealing the IRS targeted social welfare organizations . Author : IRS allows some of these groups to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on political ads . Some of these ads were sponsored by federal candidates , but many more were produced by groups with innocuous sounding names -- such as Crossroads GPS or the American Action Network -- but massive bank accounts . The Congress has ignored this problem for more than 50 years , says author Lois Lerner . Sloan : Until IRS does more than express its disdain for the IRS , nothing will change .
Melanie Sloan sparked scandal by revealing the IRS targeted social welfare organizations . Author : IRS allows some of these groups to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on political ads . The Congress has ignored this problem for more than 50 years , says author Lois Lerner . Sloan : Until IRS does more than express its disdain for the IRS , nothing will change .