While we are discussing taking away federal funding for NPR...

[WCGreen]

We allow tax deductible donations to be shoveled at right wing christian political figures and charlatons...

Including Westboro.

I'm just pointing this out.

[stellanoir]

1. Rush Limbaugh on Armed Forces Radio. . .?

ditto

[sarcasmo]

2. All churches should be taxed on what they take in, should have been for ages.

[louslobbs]

3. Yep, what a racket the Christian faux religious organizations have going huh?

And what better support for the Christian right wing, than the lying, phony, fraudulent, hypocritical, domestic terrorist Republicons, sponsored by Koch.
Lou

[demigoddess]

4. I am all for taxing the churches, in our small town

we have more churches than schools. Sometimes two churches within one block. And I notice that churches without buildings hold services in our schools on Sunday and sometimes Saturday. Our town has limited area and cannot expand, which means that in order to get more tax money from what we lose every time a church takes up residence, we have to pay more property tax on our houses or give up our houses to businesses. So the city council really doesn't care about people who live in our town only the businesses that might collect sales tax for them.

[palm_to_forehead]

5. ?????

Has there been talk about eliminating the tax deduction for giving to NPR?

[palm_to_forehead]

6. Seriously

I had heard the news about defunding but where's the source on eliminating their tax advantages?

I always get a tax receipt when I give to KSTX.

[WCGreen]

7. Deductions are a back way of federally funding anything...

they are talking about direct funding to NPR.

[palm_to_forehead]

11. I know that and actually said so in my post.

Where did they talk about eliminating the tax exemption for giving to them like you were talking about in the original post.

I've looked everywhere and didn't find anything.

[palm_to_forehead]

12. ?

[WCGreen]

8. The direct funding...

the reason I bring up these churches is because they take advantage of the tax code to amass huge transfers of cash from individuals to churches and since most of the Right Wing churches are entrepreneurial Church's, it goes to make the pastor look like a million dollars and live like a king.

[palm_to_forehead]

10. I know that.

But you are comparing churches tax breaks to the NPR situation.

I haven't heard anybody talk about eliminating the tax break for giving to NPR. Where did you hear that?

[WCGreen]

13. They are talking about getting rid of direct funding to NPR

while I am suggesting that we push for indiret funding through tax deductions for churches such as Westboro.

One is direct funding and the other is through tax deductions. Not the same.

I'm sorry if i wasn't clear but it's probably because I prepare taxes for a living and the distinction is clear to me...

End of story.

[palm_to_forehead]

14. The distinction is clear and you were comparing one to the other.

I actually e-mailed the woman who handles fundraising here, she said there's no push to eliminate the tax deduction.

So now, if that bill goes through, NPR and churches would share pretty much the exact same tax benefits.

You seriously handle taxes and thought that was a legitimate comparison?

[WCGreen]

15. No, I knew that distinction and believed that you got it wrong....

Seriously...

Again I stated federal funding in the subject line and then mention the tax deductions in the body of the post...

Funding should means that funds are directed to the entity via checks sent to that entity while deductions mean you write the check and you, as a taxpayer, get the deductions...

[palm_to_forehead]

16. Deductions are a back way of federally funding anything...

So you mean the proposal is to fund NPR exactly how church's are funded?

You were comparing apples to oranges.

[WCGreen]

17. That was the whole point of my comment...

And that is exactly what they Republicans want to do...

They want to stop DIRECT FUNDING to NPR...

I suggested that we make a stink about the funding of wacko churches via tax exempt status to be challanged if they are going to change the way NPR is FUNDED through direct money from the federal budget....

[The Wielding Truth]

9. That should be off the table after the embarrassing farce was uncovered

when O'Keefe edited NPR employee's conversation to insinuate that he had fixed biased opinions about the Tea Party. It was a proven lie shown by the entire unedited video posted on a Beck website, of all things. Fox needs to make a Big apology to NPR for believing this defaming criminal again. Fox News proves itself to be more biased than the accused NPR.