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Old 07-22-2016, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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No. Violation of separation of church and state.
????? How so?
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Old 07-22-2016, 12:07 PM
 
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Ultimately, I'd like the whole non-profit structure to go away. But since it won't, the next best thing is to make sure that individual taxpayers don't have to subsidize private organizations whose goals they abhor.
ok Adolph.
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Old 07-22-2016, 12:56 PM
 
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Yes, it is always a good thing to protect natural human rights. Freedom of expression should not be regulated or restricted by thug government.
Human rights, corporation rights, or individual rights?

One of six, or six of another?
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Old 07-22-2016, 02:34 PM
 
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ok Adolph.
Woohoo! I win!
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Old 07-22-2016, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Alameda, CA
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Yes, it is always a good thing to protect natural human rights. Freedom of expression should not be regulated or restricted by thug government.
The provision has never prevented anyone from expressing any view or supporting whoever they wanted.
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Old 07-22-2016, 03:06 PM
 
Location: Alameda, CA
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So Reverend Al Sharpton and Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Louis Farrakhan and those black Baptist churches that host Democrat candidates in Harlem in their churches are in deep doo doo or is it only when they are in the pulpit on a Sunday?

Farrakhan, by the way, is bi-political. He doesn't like Obama or Trump. He called Obama a murderer and Trump a thug.
They can not endorse a candidate without the potential of losing the tax exempt status of the church.
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Old 07-22-2016, 03:08 PM
 
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great, since eco-nut non profits like to always get up there and support their candidates, then they should also follow suit like churches do.
Under the current rules those "eco-nut non profits" do not have tax exempt status if they support political candidates. This change would allow them to gain tax exempt status.
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Old 07-22-2016, 03:09 PM
 
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since taxes are money taken from you against your will, isn't that exactly the same as armed robbery? 'they' threaten you with capture and imprisonment if you don't give them money, its exactly the same as an armed robber.

exactly the same.
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Old 07-22-2016, 04:57 PM
 
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Under the current rules those "eco-nut non profits" do not have tax exempt status if they support political candidates. This change would allow them to gain tax exempt status.
Which is precisely what we need.

How else can we expect to successfully fight against GMO
monsters like Hillary Clinton® Monsanto ?
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Old 07-22-2016, 05:10 PM
 
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Spoken like a true Fascist.
What's fascist about requiring religious sects to pay their share of taxes? A group believing in a mythical sky daddy should not enjoy tax free status any more than your basic hippy commune selling dope to passers by.
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