Posted on 03/15/2009 2:17:18 PM PDT by careyb
This looks to me like an attempt to starve charities of funds, and get them to the point where they are willing to accept government money. As we have seen with the banks, once you accept money from the government, you lose control of your organizational mission.
Imagine the government taking control of your favorite charity or church.
Oh? Here is another tax they might not like:
How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!
A TAX on NEWSPRINT!
Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and
Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and
Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,
Therefore:
Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
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We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
This is Hitler’s tax on religion, still on the books in Germany, and in total violation of church state coinvolvement, but democrate hyocrites demand it.
If you want to cripple the lib’s, place an extremely high tax on sex toys.... and all sexually perverted activity. ;<)
The idiot moderator keeps talking about weathier benefiting from giving to charity. He doesn't seem to understand that giving money to charity costs more than the tax benefit. That's why conservatives give more than liberals, liberals are only generous with other people's money.
Of course a donor can profit from a fraudulent gift, but I expect it's mostly liberals who engage in that activity.
Actually, people who give to charity are affected more by what they can afford, than by tax benefits. Historically, charitable contribution rates have been higher, when overall rates of taxation have been lower, because people have more to give at those times.
At this time, many people have lost a great deal of wealth recently, and are anticipating overall tax increases that will impact future wealth. To eliminate a tax advantage for charitable giving will simply erect another barrier to this giving.
On the other hand, there is some irony here. Most charitable giving is done by conservatives, but most charities are run by liberals. Obviously, a conservative is more likely to donate to his or her church, than to Planned Parenthood, but many liberal charities benefit greatly from conservative donors. I used to donate to the Red Cross, until I saw them backing Middle Eastern terrorists, in their attacks on Israel.
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