Alarmists blowing smoke over activist groups’ spending

Government spending the true ‘dark money’ scandal

By Eric Wang

• The country is on the verge of barreling over a “fiscal cliff.” 
• Absent any change, taxes will spike by more than $500 billion next year (an average of $3,500 per household), which economists think could precipitate another recession. 
• At the same time, Washington needs to find more than $1 trillion to replace the automatic “sequestration” cuts imposed by last year’s Budget Control Act. 
• Yet the media are still castigating “dark-money” and “secret-money” groups that have been sounding the alarm about these very issues. 
• A New York Times editorial blasted such groups for continuing their “pernicious” efforts during the fiscal-cliff negotiations and persisted in demanding that their donors be disclosed.
• To understand what a public disservice is being done by the sideshow against “dark money,” it is first necessary to understand what critics are going on about.

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