I have been bitching about “nonprofits” here on FR for many years. It started when I was researching Judicial Watch. JW was a 501C(3) and I found their 990 filings and read them. Suffice to say that if you looked at them now you would see that they took in over $100,000,000 and from that produced very little. That got me looking at more and more 990’s. I found that many so-called “charities” are in business to push their own political agenda and/or enrich their handlers.
Did you know that the head of The Anti-Defamation League pays its head $500K+ or that Consumers Unions that publishes Consumers Report has 100’s of millions in the bank and is a “charity”? Hey, can you tell me how many “nonprofits” are in Mexico excluding American nonprofits? HINT: The answer is 1-1.
We need to scrap all the nonprofits and the IRS and repeal the 16th amendment and implement the fair tax.
FYI, when I first started bitching about these “nonprofits” there were 500,000, today there are 1,500,000.
The left has been using them for decades to trash and burn legitimate businesses and compete against companies that pay taxes. This is why the left got so pissed off about the 501(C)4 issue and the Tea Party. The left saw it as the right using the same techniques the left has with the 501(C)3’s for decades. They set about to slug mouth those wanting to use the 501(C)4’s because they knew how effective they can be but the truth is that the Tea Party types were not even coming close to abusing the system like the left has.
Nonprofits should ONLY be organizations that feed, cloth and house human beings is these types of entities are allowed to exist. But as I said before, NONE of them should and the entire tax system must be torn down. Reagan tore down the Berlin Wall, the US can tear down the IRS.
Last point, when I first started looking at these groups years back I wondered why Free Republic was not a nonprofit. I know why now, the Robinson family is very smart and they wanted to keep the government out of their business. They were ahead of the game...
I could start a charity, pay myself $200,000 a year. Travel all around the country supposedly marketing my charity, but really going golfing, sightseeing, and dining.
If my charity has a good-sounding name and I have a decent web site, then I could drag in a bunch of money.
Then all I have to do is once a year write a check to a real charity and I'm supposedly legit.
With what we now know about the IRS, we have enough reason to get rid of the income tax altogether and all of the associated tax deductions.