[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I don’t know why the left wasn’t de-funded... They run their 501(c) scams all day long...

If there was mandatory drug testing for all paid employees of 501(c) Tax Exempt Corporations as a condition for “non-profit” status written into the Internal Revenue Code, the left wing front groups (like Greenpeace, Sierra Club, PETA, CAIR, ACLU, etc, etc, ad nausea) would dry up and blow away like aging dung...

Whenever I hear or see some leftist commentary about “corporate welfare” in the media from one such entity, I can never for the life of me figure out why the Republican doesn’t call the 501(c) Tax Exempt Corporation “corporate welfare.”

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t know why the left wasn’t de-funded... They run their 501(c) scams all day long...

That's a good point.

If there was mandatory drug testing for all paid employees of 501(c) Tax Exempt Corporations as a condition for “non-profit” status written into the Internal Revenue Code, the left wing front groups (like Greenpeace, Sierra Club, PETA, CAIR, ACLU, etc, etc, ad nausea) would dry up and blow away like aging dung...

Well, I'm not a big fan of government intrusion, so I couldn't quite sign on to the drug testing here.  If we were talking top level security or a very dangerous job situation, I could.  I just don't want to see the government doing this across the board.  I don't like to see drug testing of kids either on a normal basis.

Whenever I hear or see some leftist commentary about “corporate welfare” in the media from one such entity, I can never for the life of me figure out why the Republican doesn’t call the 501(c) Tax Exempt Corporation “corporate welfare.”

This aspect of your comments is something I heartily agree with.  The 501(c) scams and the government relation to them are good areas to focus on.  And some of them like the conservancies get a lot of government money and land to screw around with.  I'd end that in about two seconds.