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The IRS's Plan to Chill Charitable Giving
FreedomWorks ^ | November 21, 2015 | Logan Albright

Posted on 11/22/2015 8:05:28 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: EternalVigilance

Don’t you find it strange, EV, that Cruz is a FairTax co-sponsor, and he is not promoting it?

What do you suppose is up with that?


21 posted on 11/22/2015 9:32:45 PM PST by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: Taxman; EternalVigilance
Don’t you find it strange, EV, that Cruz is a FairTax co-sponsor, and he is not promoting it?

He is promoting the elimination of the IRS, which is pretty much the same thing, isn't it?

22 posted on 11/22/2015 9:50:27 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Old Sarge; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; freeangel; kalee; TWhiteBear; ...
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23 posted on 11/22/2015 9:54:43 PM PST by LucyT
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To: okie01; Taxman
He is promoting the elimination of the IRS, which is pretty much the same thing, isn't it?

No. That's an empty promise when his tax plan keeps the income tax going, and adds a Value-Added Tax, one of the most insidious forms of taxation known to man.

24 posted on 11/22/2015 10:05:20 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: DaveyB
Ted Cruz has said if elected the IRS will be shut down!

One good reason to lay about with a scythe on alphabet-soup agencies is that hundreds of thousands of 'Rats hide out there, burrowing in and feasting off the work of others while doing political oddjobs like Lois Lerner and James Hansen and Joe Wilson.

The only way to get rid of all the 'Rats without violating the Civil Service Act (and thus undoing all the illegal political organizing the 'Rats have done since the Klintonx came to power) is to shut down the agencies and subject all its employees to a general RIF. The agencies' responsibilities must be moved (if it is desired to keep them), and the "perps" left behind in the dust to go crying on their knees to their former Obamarrhoid masters.

Cruz has it right. The executive departments most loaded with 'Rats are the ones he has named for closure, and that's the right thing to do. Somebody has to delouse the government and return it to some semblance of political neutrality, and that includes the DoD.

25 posted on 11/22/2015 10:49:04 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Taxman
Don’t you find it strange, EV, that Cruz is a FairTax co-sponsor, and he is not promoting it?

What do you suppose is up with that?

Cruz is only a social conservative. Beyond that he's as much a RINO/liberal as the rest of DC Republicans.

It's obvious his crony capitalist donors wrote his haphazard tax plan on cocktail napkins. His/their eliminated corporate taxes would be paid for off the backs of small business and their employees.

There is no defined profit in his plan, it's all taxable. A business owners earnings as well as employee's earings would be taxed 16% as a "business tax" and then taxed 10% again as individual.

His plan is a small business and jobs killer.

You know how I feel about the Fairtax...I'd take it over Cruz's plan in a heartbeat.

Ted Cruz is a fraud.

26 posted on 11/22/2015 10:53:52 PM PST by lewislynn ( Ted Cruz will never be elected President)
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To: GailA

Plus I get 1% back on my Discover card

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27 posted on 11/22/2015 11:05:00 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We have a 501(c)3 foundation. If this happens we will close the doors and sell the historic property.

http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com

What’s the point?


28 posted on 11/22/2015 11:19:22 PM PST by Utah Binger (Ancestral Puebloan Xeroid)
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To: GailA

yes, I am definitely going to be getting more gift cards at Freddie Meyers.....4x gas points is nothing to laugh at...but only if you use the full 35 gallons at the time.....we fill up and use extra gas cans to get the most we can...


29 posted on 11/22/2015 11:25:43 PM PST by cherry
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bttt!


30 posted on 11/23/2015 12:39:23 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Mears; All
What an evil organization.< P>Cruz is the only viable candidate vowing to abolish the IRS.

Abolish the IRS and we'll have freedom like the Constitution lays out -

No way to black mail other politicians - a justices -

No record of where we work, how much we make - FREEDOM. No way to 'keep us in line'

31 posted on 11/23/2015 1:32:36 AM PST by maine-iac7
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To: TADSLOS

Until 2016 folks!


32 posted on 11/23/2015 2:40:45 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Liberals have long disposed private charitable contributions. They believe all funding must come from an all knowing government.
33 posted on 11/23/2015 4:38:39 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: lewislynn; okie01; Man50D; Principled; EternalVigilance; phil_will1; kevkrom; Bigun; PeteB570; ...

You know, Lewis, I never thought I’d agree with you, ever!

HST, your points are well made, and I agree with you.

Cruz has not thought his “plan” through, and for whatever reason, he has not promoted the FairTax, even though he has been a co-sponsor since March 10, 2015!

Pretty obvious he has not done his homework on FairTax!

We will never be a truly free people so long as we have ANY FORM OF INCOME TAX!

AND,

We will never be a truly free people so long as we have an INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE!

The simple truth is that ALL FORMS OF INCOME TAX REQUIRE AN ENFORCEMENT ARM!

FairTax does not — the federal government will monitor the 50 state sales tax collection agencies, and individual Americans will NEVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH A FEDERAL TAX COLLECTOR!

Business owners will be required to keep pretty much the same records they keep today, and they will get paid for their administrative effort, as will the individual states.

What is not to like about FairTax, Senator Cruz? If you really want to abolish the IRS, the FairTax is the ONLY means to do so!


34 posted on 11/23/2015 7:08:54 AM PST by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: Taxman

I am a Cruz supporter and also disappointed that he is not advocating for the Fair Tax. Income tax is an abomination.


35 posted on 11/23/2015 7:12:10 AM PST by austingirl
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To: maine-iac7; Bigun

You are absolutely correct, maine-iac7!

FairTax is about FReedom!

We will never be a FRee people so long as we have an income tax and an IRS!


36 posted on 11/23/2015 7:14:58 AM PST by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Democrat Party chilled my charitable to the bone. In fact, they killed it.


37 posted on 11/23/2015 7:18:50 AM PST by sport
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Alternate proposal: repeal section 501(c). Eliminate the concept of un-taxed "non-profits".

Really, the Left, with things like the Clinton Foundation, Ford Foundation, and all the myriad "non-profits" who network together tax-free, and see their endowments grow tax-free as they pay members of the elites to sit on their boards and be their trustees, would be the most affected.

38 posted on 11/23/2015 7:26:21 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A warning especially during the holidays. Be careful about who you donate to. Many are scams. Do your research. It is a fact that the EBT crowd and prison inmate’s baby mamas put various kid names on every mall Christmas trees they can find. I used to work next to the welfare office so have heard them talking about it. A family member, who’s a prison guard, hears the same from inmates and visitors. We’ve been burned by adopting an elderly lady at the nursing home when the workers were going through our presents saying they want this and that for themselves and their friends. Just be careful.


39 posted on 11/23/2015 7:41:46 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's hard to imagine a more chilling regulation on charitable giving. Would you be willing to enter your Social Security number into an internet donation form, knowing that the government will get to see it?

Uh, when you go to claim the charitable deduction on your tax return the government can find out to what organizations you donated.

This seems like a made up problem.

40 posted on 11/23/2015 7:55:45 AM PST by semimojo
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