Posted on 03/20/2003 5:12:36 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
The truth is The Nature Conservancy is little more than a massive, ruthless real estate machine using its tax-exempt status and ties to the government to create wealth for itself.Guys, THAT bears repitition far and wide! The "conservancy" is one of if not THE biggest landowner in the WORLD excepting governments, and few of them even. Peace and love, George.
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Thanks for providing the language of Sections 106, 107 of this proposed S.476...appreciate it.
If a government official were to do this, it would be felonious malfeasance -- abuse of power under color of law. Why the Nature Conservancy is allowed to do it, with tacit cooperation from Albany, simply eludes me.
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Instead of voting on anything, what Frist and Company should be doing now is making the RATS do a Jimmy Stewart filibuster on Estrada.
This bill must be opposed and not allowed to become law. But that is not sufficient. The key to breaking the backs of these groups is the flat tax or the fair. Once the charitable deduction that even most conservatives believe is important is eliminated, real organizations worthy of true charitable support will continue to thrive and prosper. But these anti-capitalist front organizations posing as friends of the environment will be economically castrated.
We don't just want tax cuts; we demand meaningful tax reform. And meaningful tax reform is the flat tax or the fair tax or a combination of the two.
Americans will never be free as long as government controls its taxing authority independent of the taxpayers. Most Americans do not pay income tax at all. And the lion's share of income tax paying Americans pay only a token portion of the tax. The graduated income tax is an abomination to free people. And Americans will never be free as long as government controls our currency. A free people must force their government back on the gold standard.
Defeating this bill is important, but do not lose sight of the truly important goals.
Why would they do something like that?
But, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the Republicans?
In this instance, YOU are the prosecutor. RICO is civil law that was designed and intended to allow the common man to sue the mob out of existance. This is why people like Planned Parenthood have used it against pro-life groups, and other people have sued Insurance companies and such. Of course, no one actually seems foolhardy enough to actually sue the Mob bosses with it.
Organizations such as the Nature Conservancy do not need more corporate welfare, which this bill provides by giving them an advantage as a buyer that is not available to other bidders. The Nature Conservancy pays no income taxes at all, as do other bidders in the private sector. The Nature Conservancy's income is directly enhanced by grants from government ($147 million between 1997 and 2001) and another $142 million in 2000 alone), from contracts, and the sale of land to the government.
According to a recent report in Range magazine, the Nature Conservancy owns more than 90-million acres of land around the world, about 12-million acres – a chunk the size of Switzerland – of which is in the United States. Along with the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace and two other environmental organizations, the Nature Conservancy is listed as "executing agency," or "collaborating organization," on more than $800 million in annual grants from the U.N.'s Global Environment Facility. There is no justification for these subsidies.
Governments already own more than 40 percent of the total land area in America. The total additional acreage owned by the more than 1,200 "conservancy" organizations is not known. These organizations, in "public/private" partnerships with government, are taking control of the foundation of our free-market economy. This objective is not expressed publicly by either government, or by environmental organizations. Nevertheless, the expansion of public ownership of land is the objective, and the transformation of our economic system is the inevitable consequence. It is the objective set forth by the United Nations in 1976:
"Land ... cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice. ... The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable. ..."
The CARE Act of 2003 subsidizes these giant green corporations in order to expedite the removal of land from private individuals, and the "inefficiencies of the market." Since socialism is defined to be "public ownership of the sources of production," every sale of land to the government, or to an environmental organization acting as a surrogate government partner, moves the nations closer to a socialist economy.
Who wants to sleep with the fishes? :)
Actually, I feel some of these green groups are no more moral than the mob - the only difference is a tax exempt status.
I agree. They're just smarter. Like the three guys that like to cut flesh. One becomes a butcher, one a surgeon and one a homicidal maniac. Same basic motivation, just different ways and different social status for how they do it.
I definitely favor the fair tax. Also keep in mind that the U.S. constitution does not grant the federal government the power to buy land except for specific purposes. And rightly so.
Article. I.
Section. 8.
Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
Replacing the graduated/progressive income tax with a consumption tax such as the NRST would set off a chain reaction of benefits.
1. Boom the economy because productivity is not taxed; no tax on profits or hidden taxes/fees.
2. IRS threats and coercion eliminated and replaced with, if you don't want to pay the tax, don't buy the item.
3. 20% to 30% decrease in retail prices that facilitates spending and partially offsets the retail tax. Which will also...
3a. Make U.S. made products more competitive when sold within the USA against foreign imports.
3b. Make U.S. made products more competitive in the World market.
4. People will know how much leviathan government is really costing them, resulting in...
5. Shrinking government to it's constitutional function to protect synonymous private-property rights and individual rights from domestic and foreign criminals while upholding the sanctity of private contracts.
6. Creates jobs in the USA.
7. Freedom in United States leads to other countries doing similar or risk its citizens fleeing to United States to increase productivity here while enjoying the fruits/prosperity of their labor.
The reader can get more information at Americans for Fair Tax on the fairtax.org Web site.
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