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House Democrats call for stripping tax-exempt status from 60 ‘hate groups’
Washington Examiner ^ | September 19, 2019 | Nihal Krishan

Posted on 09/20/2019 4:27:11 AM PDT by gattaca

House Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee said on Thursday that over 60 alleged hate groups, mostly socially conservative organizations, anti-immigration entities, and religious groups should be stripped of their tax-exempt status.

(5/5): These remarks are vile and only work to perpetuate hate crimes and stir division. There is no reason the U.S. government should continue to subsidize groups like these – Ways & Means Dems are shining a light on this issue today.

— Ways & Means Committee (@WaysMeansCmte) September 19, 2019 Some of the bigger organizations on the list include the fundamentalist Protestant group American Family Association, which opposes gay rights, the anti-immigration organization Federation for American Immigration Reform, the conservative think tank the Center for Security Policy, and the socially conservative group the Family Research Council. The groups were designated as "hate groups" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that itself is controversial and whose founder was fired this year for misconduct.

The Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Thursday focused on “How The Tax Code Subsidizes Hate,” at which Democrats said they were concerned about the government subsidizing groups that millions of Americans would find abhorrent and Republicans said they feared that First Amendment rights could be infringed ending some groups' tax-exempt status.

The subcommittee heard from multiple victims of mass shootings, who shared their stories and asked the congressmen to take legislative action to eliminate the tax benefits given to nonprofit groups that may proliferate hate and discrimination.

No legislation has been proposed at the moment.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afa; antichristian; antichristianbigotry; fair; frc; gaystapo; homofascism; homosexualagenda; liberalfascism; splc
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To: gattaca

Funny how this House Democrat majority is ultimately working to President Trump’s benefit. They can’t help exposing themselves for all to see as destructive radicals, and thereby rallying patriots and red-pilling the once-inattentive “middle.” President Trump is a human minesweeper.


41 posted on 09/20/2019 6:50:35 AM PDT by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: gattaca

How about No Tax Exemptions for Anyone! Flat Tax at 11% for Everyone! That should fix it.


42 posted on 09/20/2019 6:57:25 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Liz

Well, if you believe the “government conspiracy” that the government is compiling lists of “extremists” that includes most ordinary Americans, then you ARE an “extremist”!


43 posted on 09/20/2019 8:48:24 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: grey_whiskers

SPLC is the biggest hate group. They hate everybody that’s sane.


44 posted on 09/20/2019 10:39:55 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Hugh the Scot

You already have been; you WHITE, CONSERVATIVE, PRIVILEGED, CHRISTIAN, RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, DEPLORABLE, FASCIST, MISOGYNISTIC, TEABAGGING, RAT BASTARD!

Glad to see you are in the club, were very exclusive you know.

(I am sure I missed a few, quite a few)


45 posted on 09/20/2019 1:08:13 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

And those are my good points...


46 posted on 09/20/2019 2:47:42 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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