The House nixed a bill empowering the Treasury Department to revoke nonprofits’ tax-exempt status over alleged ties to “terror.”
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 days ago

    Maybe they should focus on the tax exempt status of some “churches” that had their fingers too deep into politics this year.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 days ago

    …why? Like why would someone want that? What the fuck is the point of getting rid of nonprofits?

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 days ago

      Privatize education. Get stock in some for-profits your shit friends own like devos, declare everyone else terrorist or on your watch listz watch “woke” chaos, award your new for profits gov contracts. And that’s just education.

      Planned parenthood? Immigrant support orgs? The “wrong” religious orgs(while you conveniently get kick backs from those allowed to be in favor)…

      It’s not that hard to solve the equation here, it’s simple corruption, destruction of opposition targets, retribution, and delivering your masses the lion matinee they voted for. Like every authoritarian ever.

    • freshcow@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 days ago

      Obviously to target those that are politically inconvenient to you. Or perhaps as a favor / quid pro quo for one of your rich buddies. Or maybe as revenge for pissing him off. You could pretty much guarantee these scenarios if Trump had this ability. And honestly he doesn’t even need to care about any of it, he just needs some conservative think tank to give him a hit list.

  • darthsid@lemmy.world
    633·
    3 days ago

    Why bother? Majority of Americans asked for Trump. You guys literally asked for this.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      231·
      3 days ago

      Way to completely disregard the more than 72 million people who voted against him

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      224·
      3 days ago

      ~75M people out of ~340M asked for this. That’s like 22% of the population. The rest of us absolutely did not ask for this.

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
          143·
          3 days ago

          Only those 75ish million. No more, no less.

          Although it’s also worth noting that not everyone who voted for Trump supports everything he does. In fact I suspect most don’t, but they’ve been fooled into thinking his “business acumen” will make their lives materially better.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            121·
            3 days ago

            He lies all the time so they don’t actually have any idea what he’s going to do. The sad thing is they know that and voted for him anyway.

          • NateNate60@lemmy.world
            93·
            3 days ago

            75 million people decided they wanted this, a bit less than that decided they didn’t, and the remainder decided they did not care enough about their country to give their opinion either way