Conservative Group Hits Teachers Union

[Systematic Chaos]

This was on the list of top news stories when I came home just 30 minutes ago, but was gone in a flash. The degree of hypocrisy present in the actions of these pukes is COMPLETELY beyond description!

Here's the link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=11&u=/ap/20030905/ap_on_re_us/nea_taxes_4

And a couple of juicy snippets:

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WASHINGTON - The government should start a criminal investigation into the nation's largest teachers union to see whether the organization improperly used dues money to influence elections, a conservative law firm says.

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Mark Levin, president of Herndon, Va.-based Landmark, said, "The complaints we filed today show, in meticulous detail, how the nation's largest, most powerful and most political union has flagrantly ignored its tax obligations."

Under the tax code, unions cannot use dues money to influence the election or defeat of any candidate. Contributions to candidates and parties are supposed to be made by separate political action committees.

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[ixion]

1. even if this were true, I doubt it would be considered criminal

this is more of the same hubris from the rethugs.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. As I remember from The Clinton/Penis Extravaganza...

Mark levin was on geraldo a LOT and is nothing more than a mealy-mouthed, bombastic self-promoter who is about as fundimentally dumb as a ditch-carp.

BFD.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Well stated!

:)

[GalleryGod]

11. He's A Troll-like,Bald headed,dweeb who NEVER got laid!

Teen Comedy UG-ly....I recall him well!Along with Terry-the-High-Talker!:silly:

[prolesunited]

4. Well let's take on the churches

and the "Christian" organizations like Focus on the Family that have their hands in the political process.

[DrGonzoLives]

5. Now, now

We can't go around proving Republican hypocrisy like that! It just wouldn't do!

[xchrom]

6. or any other of those

loudmouthed conservative groups -- like concerned women for america -- they're one of my favs.

[Skittles]

7. yeah

let's start with their TAX FREE STATUS

[mbperrin]

8. YES

Let's DO.

[The Zanti Regent]

9. TAX ALL CHURCHES!

If these lying thieves that run "churches" want to get involved in the political process, make them pay their fair share of taxes, just like the flocks the so dishonestly fleece!

[david_vincent]

10. Whether or not

they want to get political, I think churches should be taxed. And if Republicans were true to their professed convictions, they would agree with me. After all, churches used to be taxed... and the whole Republican agenda is about turning back the clock to the good old days, before women and minorities got uppity, before people knew what the word "pollution" means, before kids started questioning authority... and before churches were given tax-free status.
Seriously, I do think that churches should have to pay tax. Arguments in favor of sheltering them from tax just don't make sense to me.

[Catherine Vincent]

12. I remember pundit Levin from the Clinton/Gore years.

That big baldheaded prick was a nuisance. Fuck him.


















Yes.....he left a lasting impression.