[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS : POLITICS: PRESSURE GROUPS: ALEC a Charity? No Way!
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
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ALEC a Charity? No Way!
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ALEC a Charity? No Way!
APRIL 26, 2012 8:27AM
Steve Klingaman
Salon
http://open.salon.com/blog/
steve_klingaman/2012/04/25/alec_a_charity_no_way
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/bpcg4zg
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The public interest group Common Cause filed a long overdue complaint
challenging the charitable nonprofit status of the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) last week. This long overdue action seeks to
strip ALEC of its 501(c)3 status, a status that connotes broad charitable
benefits to the public that merit a tax exemption for donations to the
organization.
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The Common Cause action is fueled by the organizations
research into the actual workings of the shadowy lobbying juggernaut
masquerading as a nonprofit, based on inside documents newly and
previously acquired by Common Cause and aligned organizations. It is not
a pretty picture if you happen to believe in elective government or the
good works of the nonprofit sector.
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A technical word here: there are many types of nonprofit
organizations, a veritable alphabet soup of public purposes and private
benefits to members. Of these, only 501(c)3 organizations are charitable
organizations per se. Others, like 501(c)4s and 501(c)6s, represent
social welfare organizations and business leagues, respectively; precisely
the type of organization that should tag the legal status of ALEC.
Contributions to each type are not tax-deductible.
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According to ALECs 2010 Form 990, which I analyzed via
guidestar.org, the organization claims its charitable exemption by virtue
of an education mission. Its sole client base? Your elected state
representatives. Its stated beneficiaries? You, the public. Its actual
beneficiaries? Ideologically conservative legislators and the businesses
that fund them.
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Here is the ALEC mission statement:
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To advance the Jeffersonian Principles of free markets, limited
government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan
public-private partnership among America's state legislators, concerned
members of the private sector, the federal government, and the general
public. To promote these principles by developing policies that ensure the
powers of government are derived from, and assigned to, first the People,
then the States, and finally the Federal Government. To enlist state
legislators from all parties and members of the private sector who share
ALEC's mission. To conduct a policy making program that unites members of
the public and private sector in a dynamic partnership to support
research, policy development, and dissemination activities. To prepare the
next generation of political leadership through educational programs that
promote the principles of Jeffersonian democracy, which are necessary for
a free society.
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Long and highfalutin as it is, the key words here are Jeffersonian
Principles, because if this is merely an educational organization that
espouses a theory of governance, that is allowed under the educational
clause of the charitable definition. If it is, however, a cover for a
conservative, partisan, i.e. Republican lobbying agenda, well, partisan
politics are expressly verboten by IRS code.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
http://workface.com/e/daviddillard
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