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Unions are non-profit organizations and thus do not pay taxes. Since all they essentially do is collect dues from workers, spend them on political campaigns and tell others how to vote, should they lose their tax exempt status?
Unions are non-profit organizations and thus do not pay taxes. Since all they essentially do is collect dues from workers, spend them on political campaigns and tell others how to vote, should they lose their tax exempt status?
You can thank the citizens united ruling--the one that lets corporations give unlimited amounts of funding--for letting them give dues money to political campaigns--up until that point they were completely restricted to spending money that they raised independently (NOT dues) through their PACS. The PACS were completely separate organizations, and that's where all the political work was done.
That's why I laugh at some of you who don't want to get special interests out of elections--this is about both sides.
As far as taxes go, there are lots of different non-profit designations--PACS are nonprofit too. The reason they're tax exempt is because there is no owner--the money comes in, and they have to spend it on whatever their purpose is. No single individual makes a profit from the funds. For profit corporations pay taxes because there IS an owner, and they make a profit.
I forgot to add--before Citizens United, unions were restricted to spending their dues money on "servicing" their membership, meaning negotiating contracts, handling grievances, providing legal representation when necessary over contract violations, etc. They could also run public education and get out the vote campaigns targeted at their membership--no one else. They ran completely separate fundraising drives (with completely separate staff) for the PAC. My mom was a teacher (a republican teacher's union member) and all my sibs are teachers or married to teachers.
unions are non-profit organizations and thus do not pay taxes. Since all they essentially do is collect dues from workers, spend them on political campaigns and tell others how to vote, should they lose their tax exempt status?
Unions are non-profit organizations and thus do not pay taxes. Since all they essentially do is collect dues from workers, spend them on political campaigns and tell others how to vote, should they lose their tax exempt status?
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