MODA Attempting to Tax on Non Profit Pet Adoptions

[jifwittle]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

Of course shelters are necessary. However, they need to be carefully monitored just like breeding facilities and that costs money. Someone has to pay and the taxpayers are broke! Sorry, but in this economy, organizations, including charitable ones, are going to have to to pull thier own weight in funding the costs associated with them.

The taxpayers are the ones donating their money and their time. It's one thing to require a fee for licensing/inspections, but it's just greedy to apply a tax to each adoption - adoptions which have been funded by people's donations.

[latetotheparty]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

Of course shelters are necessary. However, they need to be carefully monitored just like breeding facilities and that costs money. Someone has to pay and the taxpayers are broke! Sorry, but in this economy, organizations, including charitable ones, are going to have to to pull thier own weight in funding the costs associated with them.

not-for-profit rescues DO pull their own weight and take up a LOT of slack from municipal and county shelters.....

so, the solution is to tax the non-profit, always-have-been-operating-on-less-than-a-shoestring or at-a-loss shelters and rescues right out of business?? what about municipal and county shelters?? tax them, too?? if THAT comes to pass, i foresee a huge number of rescues just giving up, thereby leaving all of those animals in the municipal and county shelters, which since they don't have to pay the tax if an animal is not adopted, will simply step up the killing....

lovely... just lovely....