It's baffling to me that more people don't have a problem w/conditioning tax status on abstention from political speech http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/20/freeing-americas-pulpits-from-government-censorship/ …
@normative Let's go back--what reason do you believe there is for non-profits? Provide benes that won't be provided in marketplace?
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@emptywheel I have no strong views on what the correct tax treatment of various types of orgs ought to be. -
@normative It seems necessarily tied to whether this is a carve out or not, though.
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@emptywheel Incidentally, we "subsidize" tons of objectionable speech through tax exemption. IRS won't come knocking if a pastor...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@emptywheel ...spends an hour every Sunday railing against teh gheys or feminism or whatever. But if an elected official is the target...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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