LANDMARK REPORTS NEA FLAUNTING FEDERAL LABOR REPORTING LAW

Landmark Legal Foundation ^ | 4/22/02 | Landmark Legal Foundation

[concerned about politics]

Landmark Legal Foundation today filed an unprecedented complaint with the U.S. Labor Department charging the National Education Association (NEA) with concealing the union’s use of millions of dollars in tax-exempt teachers’ dues and fees for political activities since at least 1994.

Good for exposing the crimminals, but the NEA will pay the fines and keep doing it.
If the courts remove their tax exempt status, they'll just increase school taxes to cover the fines - "for the sake of the children."
They'll say they need more money to cover books, sports activities or art , now that they have to pay taxes. They'll take it out on the kids. The kids are weapons in their arsonal.
We do as they say, or the kids will suffer their wrath.

[TomB]

Well done. Keep after them.

[TwoStep]

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[Mo1]

Landmark’s complaint today to the Labor Department follows earlier complaints filed in 2000 and 2001 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on the NEA’s unreported political expenditures and activities, which violate federal tax and election laws.

Gee I wonder if they have the same Bookkeeper as Jesse Jackson??

[EdReform]

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[StriperSniper]

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[drjimmy]

Landmark press release writers must have gotten their education from NEA teachers, since they appear not to know what the word "flaunt" means.

[Teacher317]

Wow. Someone's finally calling them on their willful violation of the law, SCOTUS's Beck decision (1987 or 1988), and President Bush's first Executive Order. Of course, the most likely scenarios will be
1) more of the same, where dues payers will only get their illegally-used money back if they ask for it, (and, of course, no union official would EVER treat an employee differently because of any such request, now, would they??)
2) the NEA is fined, and uses dues money to pay for it (which, of course, is another violation of the same law... they may only use dues for 3 things, and paying legal penalties isn't one of them),
or 3) they'll ask us to go on strike on their behalf rather than choosing to stop breaking the law (and the SCOTUS decision... and the EO...)

[1L]

they'll just increase school taxes to cover the fines

How? The NEA is not a taxing authority.

[concerned about politics]

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[doug from upland]

Civil and criminal. How sweet would it be for the NEA to have to return tens of millions of dollars to members and have some leadership thugs go to jail.

[concerned about politics]

they'll just increase school taxes to cover the fines

How? The NEA is not a taxing authority.

The local schools will start to say their budget no longer covers expences. They need a vote to raise taxes, or the school will have "no choice" but to cut back on activities, art, gym, and everything else the children love. If we disobey, they will take it from the children, and it will be "the parents fault" for not approving the increase that "was so badly needed."

[FreeTally]

How long before someone is quoted saying something to the effect, "If the NEA is forced to pay fines/give back dues, it would cause an undue burden on teachers across this country who would now lack important funding"?

[Southack]

[FreeTally]

The local schools will start to say their budget no longer covers expences. They need a vote to raise taxes, or the school will have "no choice" but to cut back on activities, art, gym, and everything else the children love.

I agree that this is what would probably happen.

But, this scenario may(just maybe) be what needs to happen to get public schools back in line. If the NEA is forced to pay back money that it admittedly illegally used, and then school boards across the country start rasing taxes to cover these fines/pay backs, you are going to have millions of very unhappy people. You will have millions of people unwilling to pay higher taxes simply because the NEA decided to use its dues for political payoffs rather than what it was supposed to be used for. I would look for many court challenges concerning NEA instructing local school boards to try to raise taxes.

This could get really interesting.

[conserve-it]

"The local schools will start to say their budget no longer covers expences. They need a vote to raise taxes, or the school will have "no choice" but to cut back on activities, art, gym, and everything else the children love."

They need the money to promote homosexuality in all the schools.

[Physicist]

You don't "flaunt" the law; you flout it.