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Tax-Funded Anti-Poverty Groups Pay Their CEOs Huge Salaries
The Daily Caller ^

Posted on 07/20/2017 2:23:05 PM PDT by detective

Top officials with 14 anti-poverty nonprofits were paid as much as $869,900 as their organizations were enriched with $900 million of taxpayer money, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group has found.

The activist groups received as much as 85 percent of their revenue from federal, state and local governments and collectively spent millions on lobbying, TheDCNF’s analysis found. Also, half of the charities’ CEOs made political contributions – nearly all of which was to Democratic candidates.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: antipoverty; ceosnonprofits; fraud; nonprofitsceos; poverty; taxes
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They take tax dollars. They claim to "fight poverty".

They pay themselves exorbitant salaries.

1 posted on 07/20/2017 2:23:05 PM PDT by detective
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As poverty-fighters, I’d say they are doing an excellent job.


2 posted on 07/20/2017 2:24:50 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: detective

Poverty pimps.


3 posted on 07/20/2017 2:28:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Good work, if you can get it!......................


4 posted on 07/20/2017 2:30:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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I would like to look at their use of corporate credit cards. How much do they spend at restaurants using taxpayer funds?


5 posted on 07/20/2017 2:31:40 PM PDT by forgotten man
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Well, you have to pay top dollar for top talent. I mean, who among us could wrangle $900,000,000 from the government?


6 posted on 07/20/2017 2:34:10 PM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: Romulus

They are in danger of putting themselves out of business!
We wish.


7 posted on 07/20/2017 2:36:44 PM PDT by GnuThere
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Not just “anti-poverty” groups.

Pro-solar groups.

SJW groups.

LGBTQ groups.

Environmental groups.

If they are funded by the government, the money is free and it is also free from examination and unrelated to any of the work the group does. So take it while it’s in play.

The guy who claimed he was a CIA operative and didn’t show up for work for 2+ years, he didn’t pay anything back. He might have be humiliated during his hearing, but as I recall *HE* was not at that hearing; the hearing was another Trey Gowdy “how on earth did this ever happen?” thing which resulted as usual in utterly nothing. Tell you what, pay me $400K and you can say the most rotten, horrible things about me you can think of, OK? The Secret Service guys who consorted with Colombian prostitutes were not docked pay nor fired nor demoted. They were reassigned. The gal who oversaw some hundreds of VA deaths never faced any repercussions. The SEC personnel who were found to have watched porn for up to 5 hours a day were never sanctioned in any respect.

There is no more meaningless phrase in the English than “hold them accountable”.


8 posted on 07/20/2017 2:37:16 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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Lots of ‘non profits’ pay their CEOs big bucks.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/03/08/million-dollar-compensation-nonprofit-ceos/

“March 6, 2017; Wall Street Journal

About 2,700 employees of 501(c)(3) nonprofits received annual compensation of more than $1 million in 2014, according to a study of IRS Form 990 returns performed by the Wall Street Journal. This is about one-third more than received $1 million or more in 2011.”


9 posted on 07/20/2017 2:39:37 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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End all tax exempt status. People would still donate to their churches and real charities. I just read that the very expensive, very exclusive golf club where the Men’s Senior Open championship was held last week, Caves Valley, is a member-owned not-for-profit corporation. NOT FOR PROFIT! Yikes! It does provide scholarships for caddies, but it is mostly very wealthy folks spending time with other very wealthy folks.


10 posted on 07/20/2017 2:41:00 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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Why do you hate ETHAN BARTON AND JENNIFER DUPLESSIE?

Did you not see the field for the AUTHOR?

Are you "special" in some way?

11 posted on 07/20/2017 2:43:04 PM PDT by humblegunner
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And let's not forget that when Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois, a non-profit hospital in his district in Chicago put Michelle on the payroll as a house lawyer - I remember seeing the number $340,000 as her salary.

What exactly does a non-profit hospital need a house lawyer for?

12 posted on 07/20/2017 2:45:44 PM PDT by Bernard (Drain The Swamp! (But be careful, the swamp can fight back.))
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Top officials with 14 anti-poverty nonprofits were paid as much as $869,900...always liked that "non-profit" business - they don't show a profit because they make sure they spend all their income on big salaries, fancy accommodations, and super benefits.......
13 posted on 07/20/2017 2:52:12 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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That’s how they fight their “” Poverty!


14 posted on 07/20/2017 2:57:54 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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The activist groups received as much as 85 percent of their revenue from federal, state and local governments and collectively spent millions on lobbying,

Of course they did, that is what these organizations are for.

They exist to recycle taxpayer dollars to politicians.

15 posted on 07/20/2017 3:05:01 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: detective


16 posted on 07/20/2017 3:09:54 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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Plus, they are FAILURES from the get-go.

You can’t legislate out of poverty. Remember the bumper sticker?

“I fight poverty . . .I work”


17 posted on 07/20/2017 3:13:23 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIaRS) (along with eight other agencies) is a non-government voluntary agency (VOLAG) gorging itself 96% at the taxpayer-funded feeding trough. From LIaRS's latest available Form 990, LIaRS President and CEO Linda Hartke made an annual salary of $274,632 and an additional $33,401 from other compensation.

What LiARS and other VOLAGS do (besides lobbying for even more of your money from Demonicrat politicians) is to settle inadequately-screened Muslim immigrants in unsuspecting communities, unprepare to handle the cultural, health, and crime problems brought by the immigrants. (But, once the immigrants are settled, that's the communities problem!)

If you wonder why there are so many Somalis in Minneapolis, you can thank LIaRS, along with Catholic Charities and World Relief Minnesota.

The links are from Ann Corcoran's Refugee Resettlement Watch blog, which monitors the aid and comfort (on your nickel) given to immigrants, some of whom have turned criminal.

18 posted on 07/20/2017 3:13:29 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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They pulled 14 people with no real talent out of poverty. Mission accomplished.


19 posted on 07/20/2017 3:26:09 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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They have been doing this for decades.

Some of the biggest rip offs are among the biggest faux charities like the United Fund.


20 posted on 07/20/2017 3:45:38 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!)
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