Posted on 04/08/2015 7:23:35 AM PDT by conservativehoosier
In an exclusive first interview inside Memories Pizza restaurant since it closed down last week, owner Kevin O’Connor and daughter Crystal emerged from hiding and told Daily Mail Online they had been heartened by the support of 29,000 people who donated and many more who wrote to them. They revealed they are set to share their new fortune with disabled children, a women’s help group, fire fighters, police trusts, Christian churches and Washington florist Barronelle Stutzman, 70, who was fined after declaring she would not serve a gay wedding.
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Well, I hope they escape taxation. This is certainly a happy ending for being unjustly made the example of a business which is bigoted and all that. Heck, who would cater pizza at a wedding in the first place? Yet this business was targeted, Alinsky style, as the enemy of the liberals.
It's $842,000 after taxes and gofundme fees.
Yes, but all those thousands of donations were made to the guy who set up the gofundme site and not to the shop owners themselves. So when he turns over the money to the O'Connells then is it one big gift, in which case gift taxes apply? Or still thousands of individual gifts, in which gift taxes wouldn't apply?
It’s a good news.
Leftist/God haters really are dangerous.
I was saddened and slightly surprised at the level of security measures that the Creation Museum in Kentucky had to take.
LOL! In this country? The IRS is going to take a big, wet bite out of whatever they get.
While $800k might be OK for an Indiana retirement, that amount wouldn’t cover a couple of families with working years remaining. A debt-free small business is a wise use of that kind of money.
I suspect there will be line-ups. The Italian version of Chick Fil-A.
The last I heard Chick Fil-A wasn't hurting as a result to the attacks on them. Hopefully this pizza parlor will come out the same.
It should not be taxable ordinary income, if it is not deductible for the donors as a charitable contribution. The donors would have already been subject to income tax on that money, and the recipients should not have a taxable event in receiving the money.
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The florist who no one in America knows or could identify. This really shows how stupid the GOP is. The candidates and congressmen whould be fighting over who will be seen with this poor woman in front of every camera....supporting her and defending her against these demonic creeps.
Hard to beat a crappy $5 pizza from Little Caesar’s./s
Well, I think gofundme.com takes like a 5% cut, (leaving roughly $800,000) and she will have to pay taxes on it. If she just kept the money, after state and federal taxes she’d be looking at netting $500,000 on the gifts. Everything she gives to charity reduces her tax burden and deprives the federal beast of the dollars we gave. And covering the legal expenses of at least one of the florists makes the gift even better.
I think it is great. I applaud her for going right back to selling pizzas, that is the only way to “stick it to gay Nazis”.
Well you are right but the legislators are hiding under their desks. Most of them anyway.
Glad to see that the owners are planning to share their new found wealth with needy people.
On the other hand, I envision a suspicious fire destroying their pizza shop in the not to distant future because the liberals don’t take losing very well.
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