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Senate Bill Would Allow Tax-Exempt Status for Newspapers
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| March 24, 2009 1:08 PM ET
| Mark Fitzgerald
Posted on 03/24/2009 12:47:27 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
My business is suffering too!
Hey, I have an idea, how about making ALL businesses tax exempt? Implement a Fair Tax or Flat Tax and watch the economy go berzerk.
I know, it's too easy for the dolts in Washington to figure this out.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:01:25 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: Red Steel
Cardin is not worthy of his office
82
posted on
03/24/2009 2:02:24 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
To: Danae
I don't get why you inserted the < /sarc>
Everything you said is absolutely and undeniably true.
83
posted on
03/24/2009 2:03:03 PM PDT
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
To: Red Steel
Just another bailout...
Then again... with the depth of their devotion to the Obamessiah they might as well get a “church-based” tax exemption!!! ;)
84
posted on
03/24/2009 2:03:29 PM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: Red Steel
Low Profit Limited Liability Company Beam me up Scotty. There is no intelligent life down here.
85
posted on
03/24/2009 2:05:15 PM PDT
by
Ditto
To: Red Steel
And we all know how impartial NPR and PBS are...
86
posted on
03/24/2009 2:05:15 PM PDT
by
BlueNgold
(... Feed the tree!)
To: Red Steel
Hey, why not just rename them the “Ministry of Propaganda” and be done with it?
87
posted on
03/24/2009 2:05:56 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
(So now "change" is defined as "more of the same, but worse"?)
To: Red Steel
"As local papers are closing, we're losing a valuable tradition in America
I said the same thing about wax cylinder recordings, vinyl records, and 8-track tapes.
88
posted on
03/24/2009 2:06:14 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: facedown
“Newspapers that accept non-profit status would not be allowed to endorse candidates, but they could cover political news just as they do now, Cardin said.”
No kidding, hey? Just as they do now... and make them government owned and non-exempt. They are getting more clever and bolder by the minute.
To: Hardastarboard
I’m no tax genius here, but if you’re losing money, you don’t pay taxes anyway. Actually you do. Lots of state and local taxes are not on profit, they are on assets or activities.
90
posted on
03/24/2009 2:09:00 PM PDT
by
Ditto
To: Red Steel
Cardin is a total a******.
91
posted on
03/24/2009 2:14:43 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
To: kinsman redeemer
It was more to illustrate how true I believe the statement to be true. I was trying to be sarcastic in a Glen Beck sort of way...
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:17:04 PM PDT
by
Danae
(Amerikan Unity My Ass)
To: TomGuy
My greatgrandfather was a very successful horseshoer, with contracts for shoeing police and fire department horses.
He would NOT have wanted to propose that they get subsidized instead of getting motorized transportation, when the combustion engine became available.
93
posted on
03/24/2009 2:18:49 PM PDT
by
maica
(Barack Obama is a Communist Party Project.)
To: Red Steel
"We are losing our newspaper industry," Cardin said in a statement. " Ummmm, we "lost" the buggy whip industry too.
The Conestoga wagon industry...
And the whaling industry.
And the typewriter industry. Life moves on...
Cardin's an idiot.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:20:11 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dem's are making *an example of AIG - business will fall in line or else. (*Easier to "shake-down"))
To: Red Steel
"We are losing our newspaper industry," Cardin said in a statement. " Ummmm, we "lost" the buggy whip industry too.
The Conestoga wagon industry...
And the whaling industry.
And the typewriter industry. Life moves on...
Cardin's an idiot. PEOPLE VOTE WITH THEIR DOLLARS IN A FREE COUNTRY. AND IN THIS DEMOCRACY THEY'RE VOTING "NO" TO NEWSPAPERS.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:21:11 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dem's are making *an example of AIG - business will fall in line or else. (*Easier to "shake-down"))
To: wac3rd
I get it... A pro-Liberal institution fails...it gets tax-exempt status. But talk radio is being slammed... The Libs have no conscience.
Yes, you do "get it".
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:23:28 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dem's are making *an example of AIG - business will fall in line or else. (*Easier to "shake-down"))
To: Red Steel
Newspapers, but not news magazines? How about talk radio? How about network news? How about cable news? On and on and on we could go...
Could never have made this sh*t up.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:24:17 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Christian and armed)
To: Red Steel
This means there will probably be a clause that says they will be tax-exempt as long as they print what is approved by the Govt.
Who's next? TV? Radio? (except of course stations that carry conservative talk shows).
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:25:57 PM PDT
by
CitizenM
("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
To: Red Steel
The Rush Tribune, with a Radio adjunct.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:28:28 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking about Zimbabwe money.)
To: Red Steel
The tax code is becoming a patronage system.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:30:49 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking about Zimbabwe money.)
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