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To: Angelino97

Anybody who pays taxes has standing here.


8 posted on 09/28/2022 8:17:50 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
Anybody who pays taxes has standing here.

No.

Standing Requirement: Taxpayer Standing

Save for a narrow exception, standing is also lacking when a litigant attempts to sue to contest governmental action that he claims injures him as a taxpayer. In Frothingham v. Mellon ... Noting that a federal taxpayer's “interest in the moneys of the Treasury . . . is comparatively minute and indeterminate” and that “the effect upon future taxation, of any payment out of the funds . . . [is] remote, fluctuating and uncertain,” the Court ruled that plaintiff had failed to allege the type of “direct injury” necessary to confer standing.

Taxpayers were found to have standing, however, in Flast v. Cohen, to contest the expenditure of federal moneys to assist religious-affiliated organizations. ... Since Flast, the Court has refused to expand taxpayer standing.

12 posted on 09/28/2022 8:38:39 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Boogieman

nope. we haven’t been harmed.

yet.

basically he has to forgive the loans then we have harm and can sue.

same trick they played on Trump.


24 posted on 09/28/2022 11:21:50 AM PDT by cableguymn
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