https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/10/pulpit-freedom-sunday/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:30:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/10/pulpit-freedom-sunday/comment-page-1/#comment-182355 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:30:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=33344#comment-182355 […] “As churches get political, IRS stays quiet” [Reuters, earlier] […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/10/pulpit-freedom-sunday/comment-page-1/#comment-174778 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:43:51 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=33344#comment-174778 They need to pay taxes if they electioneer. Otherwise the organizations lobbying on the “other side” of these issues have an unfair disadvantage.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/10/pulpit-freedom-sunday/comment-page-1/#comment-174775 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:17:41 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=33344#comment-174775 The best solution: do away with tax-exempt status completely at the federal, state and local level. Allow those entities to do as they wish and spend their money in the same way as any other taxpayer.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/10/pulpit-freedom-sunday/comment-page-1/#comment-174772 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:50:50 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=33344#comment-174772 So many 501(c)(3) orgs already exist for purely political purposes, from NORML to MADD to the ACLU, that we might as well legalize the practice, because if the IRS were to take all their exemptions away they’d make the entire country mad enough to abolish the agency. (And the only third alternative is letting the agency pick and choose, which breaks the rule of law.)

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