TAXES FUND FAR-LEFT GROUPS

Fiedor Report On the News #239 ^ | August 2001 | Doug Fiedor

[listenhillary]

http://www.uhuh.com/reports/headsup/fron239.htm#TAXESFUNDFARLEFTGROUPS Doug Fiedor's site http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b6cfa5c4253.htm Originally posted here on FR (now locked)

TAXES FUND FAR-LEFT GROUPS

Have you ever felt that the political process was biased against everything you support? If you are a Constitutionalist or a conservative, there's a reason for that: It's true.

For those of you on heart or blood pressure medication, you might want to stop reading here because we are going to show how you have been supporting all those far-left groups that work against everything you want. This is distressing, so be forewarned.

In the early 1960s, the Democrats thought they needed a helping hand to stay in power. So, the Democratic National Committee joined together with a couple unions and formed the National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC). The NCSC(1) charged dues to members, but that is but a drop in the bucket to the organization. It is primarily federally funded with your money, to the tune of about $70-million annually. The group received over $300-million in federal grants in its last five years of operation. Between 1964 and 1994, NCSC received more than one-billion bucks in tax money.

Why should we care? Generally speaking, NCSC is organized labor's lobbing arm and is used to mobilize retired union workers. The NCSC went out of business last year and handed off to the Alliance for Retired Americans, an AFL-CIO organization.

At least, they said they were disbanding. Then, they turned up with 170 other far-left organizations on the dole to form an activist group called the Fair Taxes For All Coalition, designed to fight against President Bush's proposed tax cuts. According to the Cato Institute(2), between 1996 and 2000 alone, these 170 far-left groups have collectively received $618-million of our tax money.

Which means, our taxes are financing the socialists so they may better institute socialism in this country. So, of course they don't want a tax cut.

The Fair Taxes For All Coalition is co-chaired by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) -- the nation's largest government employee's union -- and the People For the American Way. AFL-CIO is helping, too.

The Detroit AFSCME union hall, readers might remember, hosted the Democratic Socialists of America convention two years ago.(3)

AFSCME received $447,000 in federal grants from 1997 to 1999. The AFL-CIO collected $6-million in tax money from 1997 to 2000. United Auto Workers is also against the Bush tax cut. UAW received over $3-million in tax money from 1996 to 2000. The National Urban League is in on this, too. They ripped off a cool $123.9-million between 1996 and 2000.

Between 1996 and 2000, NAACP received over $1.5-million, NOW took $1.2-million, YWCA got $48.8-million, National Council of La Rasa got $9.5-million, League of Women Voters took $2.3-million, and so on. The list is like a who's who of the far left.

This is the Democratic Party in action. They all get much of their money from the U.S. Treasury. Some far-left groups actually get over 95% of their money through federal grants. Of course, they also give a lot of that money back to Democrats running for office. They all also mobilize as activist front groups for the Democratic Party's causes.

Looking at the amount of government grants dispersed to activist groups is interesting, too. The Department of Labor awarded $433-million, The Department of Health and Human Services gave $93.2-million, Housing and Urban Development gave out $28.2-million in grant money, etc.

This is all money going to advocacy groups, not identified federal programs. Which means, much of this money is used to fund socialist positions most of us would strongly disagree with.

We should note here that only the 170 groups making up the Fair Taxes For All Coalition are listed in the Cato report. Which means, this is just part of the story. For instance, the environmental whacko groups are not represented.

Clearly, we have a long-term major problem here. The Democrats are funding the socialist activists with our tax money. This must stop right away. There is absolutely no reason for the government to fund private organizations, and especially politically motivated organizations.

As Thomas Jefferson once wrote: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical."(4)

That's a proper description for the Democrats: "Sinful and tyrannical." Because, if the Constitution is good, the Democrats must be bad since they refuse to obey it.

We have our work cut out for us, folks. Let's get Congress to stop funding these far left activist groups and instead fund organizations that will support the Constitution.

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[listenhillary]

Old posting.

Nothing has changed I'm sure.

[Maelstrom]

Ah...but necessary.

It gives us something to work from...a direction in which to guide the misguided Larry Klayman, for example.

Thank you for posting it, I hadn't seen it before now.

[Drango]

Some $350 million to NPR/PBS to help get the propaganda out...

[pabianice]

THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY OF NEUTERING THE LEFT IS TO STOP GIVING THEM TAX MONEY TO PURSUE THEIR AGENDA! Sorry to yell, but it's so obvious. That should be our top priority for 2003.

[samtheman]

Why give money to PBS?

Why not give money directly to Al-Qaida?

Eliminate the middle-man.

[Founding Father]

I thought all of this stopped in 1995 when the republicans took over the House---it didn't; surely it did in 2001 when they had the House and WHITE HOUSE---no?; well, positively it will now that they control the White House, House and Senate----wanna bet?

Dems want to go 100 mph to get to a socialist state----the pubbies only want to go 60 mph----that's the difference between the two.

[Bernard]

Yes, the article did not mention PBS or NPR - both of which are useless vestiges of the past, from a time before cable when alternative programming didn't exist. Now we have Discovery, Learning Channel, the History Channel, etc. and the need for PBS is long gone.

Oh, wait - there is no left-wing lunatic fringe radio station, is there? If NPR goes away, what would the LWLF do for radio?

[VRW Conspirator]

THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY OF NEUTERING THE LEFT IS TO STOP GIVING THEM TAX MONEY TO PURSUE THEIR AGENDA! Sorry to yell, but it's so obvious. That should be our top priority for 2003.

I have been saying it for years. DEFUND THE LEFT...DEFUND THE LEFT...

While it would initially create a host of problems, the long term result would silence the tax-payer financed cadre of the lefties.

[Enterprise]

Let us hope that Frist understands this. Evidently, Lott either didn't understand it or didn't care.

[listenhillary]

I'm going to forward this article to Jim Talent. New blood & all that. Maybe he hasn't created his "reply to slaves" form letter yet & reads the damned thing.

I know, I'm waay to cynical.

[per loin]

Hmmm. I thought the president still had the power of the line item veto.

[GOPJ]

We have two choices. We can stop the liberals from sucking at the public teat, or we can do the same.

Think how nice it would be to have Free Republic paid for with liberal dollars... WOW, what a hoot.

Sadly, if we acted in as corrupt a fashion as they do, we would become like them, so it just won't happen. Which is good. ( I have mixed feelings here -- a sure sign that this is a powerful seductive force for corruption)

How do we wean the liberals off?

[listenhillary]

I thought line item veto had been struck down. Bills are still being sent to president full of pork, time bomb legislation included designed to make passage of major bills unpalatable.

Anybody?

[listenhillary]

Free Republic paid for with liberal dollars... Hmmm...

By stock and give to Jim Rob
Salon.com
Manufacturer of Prozac
BN.com
KY Jelly
McDonalds
Skyisfalling.com
United Airlines
Depends.com
KoolAid.com

Partial listing - I'm sure there are more that I can't think of.

May be a wasted effort as any liberal oriented company is bound to fail.

[per loin]

Ooops, I think you are right. The Supreme Court knocked it down a couple of years after it was passed. Thanks for the reminder.

[Drango]

Dems want to go 100 mph to get to a socialist state----the pubbies only want to go 60 mph----that's the difference between the two.

Ummmmm..... 40?
I hate these difficult math questions

[Enterprise]

As I understand it the line-item veto was challenged and overturned by the Supreme Court. Thus it reverted to the historical "all or nothing" proposition. If there is something in a bill that a President doesn't like, he has to veto the whole thing.

[Enterprise]

I can only hope that at some point, the Republicans finally have that "blinding flash" of understanding. I, and others, have repeatedly said that the RATS are supremely organized. They can do any number of things as long as they control key elements of the system; such as the Courts, the Presidency, the House, or the Senate. In addition, they control the large unions, and they have vast influence at all levels of the media. NOW is the time to start hitting them hard and strip every last damned cent so that they can't give taxpayer funds to leftist groups which then attack the Republicans. Restrict their money and you cripple their power. The RATS are down. Keep them down, don't let them come up for air - DESTROY THEM!