Posted on 04/02/2015 10:05:33 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
$262,545 of $200k
Raised by 9,391 people in 1 day
“Just remember, the government is going to take half of that.”
As far as I know, it’s a GIFT...not taxable at the levels we’re talking about.
$264,319 by 9,456 wonderful people
” If a donor would give more than the annual allowance(12k?) then the donor would be liable for gift tax, not the donee.”
Most likely not. The “Gift Tax” is now paid out of the estate (i.e., after the guy dies), and only if it reaches the deductible - which was $5 Million last time I checked.
Bottom line - money can be moved quite freely as gifts.
“To put the icing on the cake (or peperoni on the pie), the proprietor should take from the donations what the estimated losses were and very publicly, with profuse thanks to the intolerant, donate the rest to a pro-family Christian lobby.”
The FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL would be the PERFECT RECIPIENT. That would make showing the cross to Dracula look like child’s play.
Conditions are not the same as with Lot....God was ready to destroy the entire cities....and peoples.
These people are doing the right thing...they closed so that tempers would ease and sent the message to those who would use their business as political fodder.
The donations are likely not just for the loss of business...but an encouragement to take their stand..which means attorney fees.
This is the time Christians must stand......not run.
...."I don't know if we will re-open," she said when asked about the backlash the business has received. She also said her family is considering leaving town. "We're in hiding, basically."
"We're very hurt and confused," she added. "We stood up for what we believe. We said we would serve anyone who walked in the door -- even gays -- but we would not condone a wedding, we would not cater for it."
(( They never refused service to anyone - even gays. They just said, when asked, that they would not cater a SSM. So, I'm sure that is the first place you would go to, if you wanted a caterer for your wedding???? Who does Pizza for a wedding??? Who is the real hypocrite?.......... the actions of the LGBT community have reduced their cause to threats & intimidation. ))
Now $267,141 by 9,561 wonderful people
Just donated as well. I am getting sick of this nonsense. A legitimate business owner receiving death threats simply because she answered a hypothetical question in a manner that did not meet the approval of the gay mafia?
There needs to be a greater backlash than a bunch of us donating money to an assistance fund. The LGBT fascists need to be made to feel the same sense of fear that they feel in trying this bull$hit with a muslim-owned or black-owned business (which they would never do).
Ain't that the truth?!?
My donations to Free Republic are gifts. But somehow I think Jim Rob has to pay taxes on them.
Thank you for posting the address.
Thank you very much, P-Marlowe. And you are absolutely correct. We are not a registered IRS non-profit and we pay all applicable taxes on our income.
Is it time for Christians to “come out of her and be ye separate” as Scripture says? The Liberal lefts seems to be making it difficult not to bow to Baal and it’s going to get worse I’m afraid. “The government made me do it” isn’t a valid excuse for condoning that which has been called an abomination in The Word.
A whole administration made up of pre-folded Republicans like I’m watching now won’t be much better than Liberals and Obama when it comes to issues of freedom of speech and religion. The Gay Mafia has overtaken big business and is using it to blackmail states into writing perversion into LAW! And it’s Republicans that are doing it. I’m not encouraged.
What most of America seems to have dismissed as an acceptable action is to leave people alone if they don’t want anything to do with your lifestyle choices. The goal nowadays seems to be to force everyone to agree with you no matter what. It can’t come to a good conclusion.
I agree. But the choices before Christians now are Satan’s best that he saved for last. Bowing to the depraved “norm” of today’s society in order to protect businesses or material goods will lose many a Christian soul. Christians throughout history have given their lives for less than we face today because they knew that to “go along” would lose them their souls. If we don’t stand and reprove the many evils that are coming on this nation then we become partakers.
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