You could elect a cabinet composed exclusively of orange cats united by a single and solitary shared braincell, and they wouldn’t be as idiotic.
They’d be idiotic, for sure. They’d be entertaining as well. But at least they wouldn’t be malignantly idiotic.
harvard is a pipeline for wealthy elitists politicians and graduates. wonder if something will shift
They should get rid of tax exemptions for churches too. The first amendment says the state can’t mandate a specific religion or prohibit people from having their religion of choice. It doesn’t say anything about taxing the billions that churches take in.
aren’t their exemption because it’s “non profit”?
(without a doubt the IRS need to go after megachurches though)
if a church or any religious establishment is working properly with no profit, then no need for taxes anyways.
You have to understand what profit is.
If I make a church, collect 1 million from my congregation. Then, I pay myself 1 million for the job of being the pastor.
My business, the church, is non-profit. It had 1 million in revenue and 1 million in expenses. No profit.
Now, I would be dumb to pay myself the million as a salary because then that million gets income taxed. I’d “buy” 1 million dollars worth of bibles for Uzbekistan and never fulfill the order or something. Launder it.
The idea of why the church doesn’t get taxed is sound. People pay income tax, church collects taxed income, church spends taxed income to better community.
They are essentially supposed to be a middle man. If i took my taxed income and donated it directly to buy bibles for Uzbekistan. Then it doesn’t make sense for my money to be taxed again. So if i give my money to the church and they give it to Uzbekistan, then why tax it?
Problem is our tax code has loop holes
A church was never supposed to buy a private jet. Yet it has become a business expense.
Tax everything above their operating costs.
Is a private jet an operating cost?
In order to maintain tax exempt status, churches may not engage in politics. That means no supporting a political party or political candidates. Most churches are in violation of that rule which makes them taxable just like the Democratic or Republican parties.
All this is is just payback for Trump university.
Doesn’t he think education deserves the tax exempt ? … Like doesn’t he want good education … ? Like … idk doesn’t he want a smart and thus rich country? Innovative research and new companies? People with good paying jobs hence good paying customers? Idk
Nah, he’s just being a little bitch because they dare to talk back and tell him no on shitty policies he wants them to implement
…wait, why the fuck are they tax exempt exactly?
because they teach people and the govt thinks that education is important
because they teach people and the govt
thinksthought that educationiswas importantJust not education that talks back.
Now revoke tax exempt status for churches.
Man… come 2028 I don’t want to hear shit from Democratic candidates that doesn’t involve an exhaustive list of all the awful shit Trump did and what steps they will take to undo all of it. Sorry chum, you picked a bad time to run so you don’t get to have an agenda that isn’t ‘pulling Trump’s dick out of this country’s ass because it’s fucked enough already.’ Cause if you’re not willing to undo this shit I really don’t care what else you have to say.
(Yeah, bring on the downvotes, I can take the heat.)
Well then I hope I can have your vote, because my platform will be to use the sweeping new executive powers carved out by the current administration to throw every member of said administration along with every employee of ICE ERO into the “unextraditable foreign gulag detention” black hole, and only then work with Congress and the courts to make that impossible again.
Nah I’m not down with that. Prosecute them with proper due process, remove everyone’s ability to do what you suggest, and unfuck all the things Trump fucked and you’ll have my vote.
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Prepare to be disappointed.
“Preventing Trump from doing exactly what he’s now doing” was somehow not a good enough reason for Americans to vote for the brown lady. Or the white lady, for that matter.
It’s the Democratic Party, if you don’t go into it already prepared to be disappointed you haven’t been paying attention. :P
And I’m not talking about whether not they win, I’m saying their campaigns should consist solely of ‘here’s a list of things Trump fucked and that I am going to unfuck.’
Look, I’m going to be honest, if a Progressive or Democrat good on the campaign trail and says they would use all of the powers granted to trump against all Republicans in a goose and gander situation, they’d have my vote.
“All billionaires will be summarily executed and their assets will be distributed to the citizenry, and the Heritage Foundation will be declared a terrorist organization, and all current and past leaders, funders, employees, and judges endorsed by them will be immediately sent to a prison camp in El Salvador” seems like a winning message.
And anything the president wants only needs an executive order, it seems, so it should be pretty easy to implement.
I’m not about revenge, I’m about making the world a better place for everyone, even the people who want to make it a worse place.
Good for you. I am and I also think using the powers Trump has been given effectively would make the entire world a better place.
Do you think that will make it better or worse? Cause you know it’s going to swing back the other way at some point, and as aggro as they already are toward the left, can you imagine how they will react when they have legitimate reasons to think they’re being targeted?
Well I suppose between using the DOJ to prosecute “criminals”, prevent Republican firms from practicing law in federal courts, arresting Republican judges including the SC, and following through with Trump’s “homegrows” plan, I guess I’m not seeing a problem.
But I’d settle for taxing the living fuck out of conservative churches and other non-profits that violate not staying out of politics.
For now.
It shall be unlawful for [the President] to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.
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Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.
And Trump has proven it means fuck all.
Counterpoint: ‘When the president does it, that means it is not illegal’ now has the weight of SCOTUS behind it. :/
talk about picking winners and losers. always projection. always.
Haha burn on the “daddy’s money gets me connections” school though.
Donvict is such a WATB. Attacking Harvard. For fucking what?
Broken Clock moment. Private universities like the Ivy Leagues absolutely shouldn’t be tax exempt, and also shouldn’t be receiving any aid whatsoever from any government, federal, state, or local.
Not even for strategic research?
If there are ever free elections again and Democrats win, there must not be a “return to normal” like Biden tried.
Democrats must do everything that Trump did. Republicans must be taught about consequences. Being respectful of the office didn’t work. It only emboldened Republicans to be more deplorable.
Republicans can then campaign on the “return to normal” platform. If they want reason, they need to become the honorable party.
And until we have free elections, we have mass protests. Shut down the economy. Shut down the roads. Form unions and have a general strike.
no. absolutely not. democratics bypassing law is not acceptable. a good trump is not what I or many want. That being said democrats need to get rid of things like citizens united and the patriot act and shore up civil rights.
The unfortunate reality is in our system that is not possible unless democrats can achieve decades of overwhelming wins. We can’t get rid of the things you mentioned without a majority in the house, and a 60% majority in the senate considering how often republicans filibuster. Even then, we need to claw back the 3-6 disadvantage in the supreme court for any changes to stick long term.
They don’t need to bypass laws. If a judge rules against them they can comply.
I heard something recently that really resonated. For fascists, the government is just a tool they can use to reach their goal.
They don’t recognize the rights outlined in the Constitution, the duty inmate to holding office, or the importance of the rule of law. It is just a weapon to wield against their enemies and can be discarded when no longer useful.
the frustrating thing is this is well known if you know who to listen to. abolitionists, union organizers, civil rights activists, hippies, punks, hip-hop artists, academics. they all been saying it
When billionaires have tax exemption and actual academia doesn’t. America really is a clown country.
