End the 1 Percent’s Free Ride: Taxing Land Would Solve America’s Biggest Problems

[Chan790]

20. Proposing ending NPO tax-exemptions on holdings is a conservative and ridiculous thing...

to propose. It's right up there with proposing extending the Capital-gains exemption. It may be the most conservative thing that will be posted on DU today and not result in an instant banning.

It's a long-term goal of the extreme right which opposes the existence of 501(c)3 charitable institutions, claiming that only religions should receive tax exemption and that the weight of taxation for those charitable institutions gets shifted to them. Further, any such proposal seriously harms the public interest by harming the ability of entities that require large amounts of space such as animal sanctuaries, the community gardens of food banks, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters,...to serve the public interest. You might as well propose outlawing charities since the tax-deduction for charitable giving would also be going away in this proposal...your proposal reduces the operating funds of 99% of current 501(c)3 charitable institutions to $0 while imposing huge taxes upon them.

So...what do you have against the people in poverty, the homeless, victims of domestic violence, children, victims of natural disasters, people with rare diseases and the 99.9% of Americans that benefit every year from the efforts of NPOs?