Teresa Heinz Kerry: Financier of the Radical Left*** During the years 1995-2001, the Howard Heinz Endowment, which Heinz Kerry chairs, gave Tides more than $4.3 million. The combined Heinz Endowments (composed of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment, with net assets of more than $1 billion in 2001) donated $1.6 million to establish the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh office of the San Francisco-based Tides Center. Since that time, the local branch has tirelessly pushed an anti-business agenda in the name of "preserving the environment." However, it is the Tides Foundation's national organization whose connections are most disconcerting.
The Tides Foundation is a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the Left. Tides allows donors to anonymously contribute money to a host of causes; the donor simply makes the check out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money. Tides does so, for a nominal fee. And who are the beneficiaries of this money?
The Antiwar Movement
Senator John F. Kerry has gone far with his, err, highly nuanced view of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He voted for the war resolution but specified a litany of conditions the Bush administration must meet before he would support combat, then proceeded to vote against funding troops already in harm's way - then claimed he had always supported the president when Saddam Hussein was captured. The grant recipients of the Tides Foundation, to which Kerry's wife has steered more than $4 billion in "charitable" funds, understand no such nuance.***
I have an idea with some anti-social engineering objectives: How about the total elimination of not only all corporate and personal income taxes in the U.S., funding everything out of an import tariff system. And how about modifying trust law--for the concentrated wealth of the Trusts now firmly governed on their Boards of Directors by the Leftist moles (i.e., Carnegie Endowment, Pew, McMillan, Rockefeller, Tides Foundation, Heinz, Sierra Club and many more etc.). Instead of tax breaks, these funds would be taxed at confiscatory levels on their total assets every year....designed to retire the trusts within 15 years. Only church funds would be immune.