Progressive Tax-Exempt Group’s Secret Plan to ‘Eviscerate,’ ‘Cripple’ GOP

The Other McCain ^ | February 23, 2013 | Staff

[lbryce]

Blueprint NC is “a nonprofit that coordinates the activities of liberal-leaning nonprofits” in North Carolina and when this 501(c) group’s communications director Stephanie Bass forwarded a strategy memo to member organizations, she included a disclaimer:

“CONFIDENTIAL to Blueprint, so please be careful – share with your boards and appropriate staff, but not the whole world.”

Oops. The memo got leaked to reporter Mark Binker at WRAL in Raleigh. The contents are quite disturbing and clearly partisan:

“The most effective way to mitigate the worst legislation is to weaken our opponents’ ability to govern by crippling their leaders (McCrory, Tillis, Berger, etc…)” the memo reads, referring to the governor, House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger. The memo goes on to describe a “potential two-year vision” during which the groups would “eviscerate the leadership and weaken their ability to govern.”

Matt Vespa at PJ Tatler has many more details on the shocking partisanship carried out by this tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) group.

Let me bring this a little closer to home for regular readers: Why do you think I’ve devoted so much coverage to Bill Schmalfeldt’s relentless harassment of Lee Stranahan?

Perhaps a better question: Do you suppose Stranahan was randomly selected for this harassment? Can’t you see that Lee’s association with Breitbart.com is the motive for the attacks on him, and isn’t it obvious that this is part of a much larger strategy by the Left to discredit, suppress or silence conservative journalists?

[Liz]

PARA-MILITARY OBAMA DEMOCRATS ARE ON THE MARCH ---- A SAD RELIC OF THE CIVIL WAR Once they get a little power---the Dems go nuts.

STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE Post-Civil War Northern carpetbaggers were prominent in Southern politics until 1875, but nearly all left under pressure from white paramilitary organizations----then-described as "the military arm of the Democratic Party"-----working openly to violently overthrow Republican rule, using intimidation and assassination to turn Republicans out of office and suppress free former-slaves from voting.

The Republican sheriff of Yazoo, Mississippi, received a brief flurry of national attention when insurgent white Democrats took over the county government and forced him to flee. (WIKI)

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FREEPER ACTION MEMO In 1875, Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican--and the first African-American US Senator--wrote to then-Pres Ulysses S. Grant denouncing Northern invaders into the post-Civil War south for manipulating the Black vote for personal benefit, and for keeping alive wartime hatreds. (WIKI)

We need to get someone with integrity----like Cong Allen West (not reelected)----- to write letters to his colleagues, and to the media.

Cong West needs to do the following:

(1) decry the agitation and intimidation tactics being used by para-military Democrats,

(2) expose hatemongering being used for political gain,

(3) emphasize the illegalities WRT threatening free people and businesses, and,

(4) precpitate investigations into Democrat tactics; using govt authority and govt resources fraudulently.

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Demonrats are giddy with success. Ohaha sees himself----and his secular/welfare/socialist/union coalition----dominating public life. But tyranny and grandiosity have a very short shelf life.....as history shows.

The self-serving progs live in a dark place----they know only (1) the govt as enforcer, and, (2) the individual to be crushed.

Whereas Conservatives are strongly united by love of country----united by a dynamic force of issue-centered groups, associations, churches, military, tea parties, prayer groups, gun pwners, the power of the internet and web sites.......

.......as well as powerful organizing issues----patriotism, gun ownership, pro-lifers, religious freedom/1st amendment.........and on, and on, and on.

Obama's forces of evil refuse to recognize constitutional freedoms. They refuse to adhere to the hallmarks of a democracy---in-place constitutional guarantees.

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The Founders escaped domination and endured horrendous deprivation----they structured our govt to protect the citizenry from tyrants and oppression. The safeguards are there----they merely have to be mobilized.......by we, the people.

[muawiyah]

Don't be silly. The federal income tax has failed to finance, or limit, federal government activities. Just get rid of it and forget about this class warfare stuff. Worry less about who pays less than you do and ask yourself why you need to pay anything at all!!

Time to turn back the clock on this one.

[napscoordinator]

I agree with your post.

[Principled]

No organizations should be exempt from paying taxes.

Well, in reality no "organizations" pay taxes. Only individuals pay taxes - only. ALL taxes are paid by individuals - in particular relating to this discussion, "business", "corporate", or "organizations" tax. Only individuals pay them.

Individual workers pay thru lower wages. Individual consumers pay via higher prices. Individual investors via reduced ROI. There is no other source to pay tax but the above.

So to tax business is to tax individuals - but in a hidden way to hide the cost of government.

...just sayin'

[unixfox]

See tagline.

[Venturer]

The GOP with it’s head man Seppucu John McCain is doing a great job of eviscerating itself.

[USMA '71]

In 2010, there were 1,514,530 non-profit organizations in the US. They had a combined revenue of $1.658 TRILLIION. The tax laws in this case have created and ‘underground’ economy of roughly 1/10 of the US GDP that is tax exempt. See any problems with this??

Link: http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/profileDrillDown.php?rpt=US-STATE

[Gaffer]

We don’t need some Progressive group to do it. We can thank all our pussy RINO Senators and Congressman. I include my own two Senators of Georgia in that group.

[upchuck]

Excellent point! In the 15 years I ran my business, it did pay one penny in tax.

[Principled]

yes sir

afaic, the less business tax, the better.
the less business tax, the more visible is our tax burden
th more visible [and painful] our tax burden, the more likely we are to elect those pols who will reduce it.

but when so many do not perceive that the cost of gov’t reduces their standard of living, they don’t see why they _shouldn’t_ vote for more gov’t.

Me i’d like no business taxes at all. No wittholding at all.

[theBuckwheat]

Conservative legislators must defund the left at every opportunity. One such opportunity comes in the form of the level of asset payout that tax-exempt foundations must comply with in order to retain their exemption.

Through the tax code, we allowed tax-exempt foundations to have eternal life, and to have an unaccountable voice to advocate for policies they favor. Foundations do not have shareholders who can vote for a new Board of Directors, they do not have customers who can boycott to force a change in direction or attitude. What they do have is a self -sustaining, self-appointing Board. Further, if a foundation is sufficiently endowed, if it earns more in investment income than it is required to give away each years (only 5%), then the foundation has eternal life.

The solution is to make foundations mortal again. Raise the 5% payout to 7 1/2%. Foundations will then eventually spend themselves out of business. We will benefit from the increased tax revenue that generates. We benefit as a nation. The founding fathers never envisioned unaccountable voices in the public square, let alone ones exempt from all taxation.

With this boost, existing foundations would push 50% more money out into their recipient base each year. The downside is that leftist causes would get more funding. The upside is that soon those foundations would have spent-out their assets and would be out of business. The other upside is that tax-exempt foundations hold an estimated 4% of the GDP in their portfolios and forcing this money out of investment s and into the economy would create jobs and tax revenues for government at all levels.

I would say this is killing two birds with one stone and in the long run helps to defund the left.

[Dead Corpse]

Charge them under RICO.

[bmwcyle]

The World Elite is working to get rid of Christians, Conservatives, and all.

[longtermmemmory]

the GOP has been McCained into oblivion.

DC is caligula’s rome for the 21st century.

[lbryce]

Too bad, That’s the way the CHADD gets punched and falls off.
Actually that is grade A political humor right there.. and at no cost to any FReeper ever. :-)

[muawiyah]

Traditionally religious institutions and groups have been exempt from taxation. In the good old days that would have included all hospitals, all schools, all welfare agencies, all battlefield relief agencies, etc. That goes all the way back to ancient times.

In modern times we have used the coercive power of the state to undertake or regulate these activities.

That 1/10 of the economy devoted to those activities would have never been taxed ~ not in Greece or Rome, not by the Hittites, or the Egyptians, nor even the Hebrews ~ and going further back, certainly not by the Sumerians.

The fact the gub'mnt also does these things is really no reason to change the traditional viewpoint. It may, in fact, be a good reason to get the gub'mnt out of those activities!

[muawiyah]

Simply require that fortunes above some level ~ e.g. $100 million ~ must be distributed to the 500 closest blood relatives through inheritance laws.

There will be no foundations at all ~ and the money and other accumulated wealth will be recycled instantly into productive enterprise.

[9YearLurker]

In the NYC area, the nonprofit lifestyle has become a way of living. I know people who refer to ‘owning’ a nonprofit they started, and even going to court if they think someone is unfairly diverting nonprofit business from their little fiefdom—which is first and foremost their means of supporting themselves. All the while,they feel very smug and superior to most, because they of course are in it for the ‘greater good’.

[kennyboy509]

The GOP is killing itself.

They don’ give us someone to vote for.

dole was an idiot
McCain is an idiot
the most recient was so outstanding that I don’t remember his name.

Anybody worth a damn is trashed by both parties.

[theBuckwheat]

Your solution is a just different flavor of tyranny. People must be free to do with their own money as they please (Matthew 20:15) The problem is not that people give their money away, but that we set up a tax-exempt vehicle that allows their money to be used in perpetuity to muck about in society and politics.

A sufficiently endowed tax-exempt foundation has eternal life only because we choose to exempt it from taxation of its earnings. Now it is a simple truth that corporations cannot be taxed. Either the customer or the shareholder is taxed in reality. However, a foundation has no customers or shareholders to pass taxation on to. That is the special deal that was granted to those who were wealthy enough to use this provision of the tax code.