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KATRINA AID: Are the Tax-Slayers donating?!

by luaptifer

Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 01:36:50 PM EST

[editor's note, by Cho] promoted and formatted for front page

Particularly with the vacationer-in-chief recruiting papa bu$h and clinton to campaign for private donors to step up to the public plate, those front groups who advocate against taxes are logical candidates for the top of the list.

I dug this up, a list of friends of NoDeathTax.org which is a project of American Family Business Institute that's based at Grover-We hope to get the federal government small enough so we can strangle it in the bathtub-Norquist's suite of offices (with many others) including a few on the list (below the fold).

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American Family Business Institute
1920 L Street, NW Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 969-2444
(202) 969-2445 fax
NoDeathTax.org
Google for other occupants @ 1920 L Street, NW Suite 200

I'd think these and other no-taxers would be happy to be recognized as prominent donors of aid to Hurricane Katrina victims, left by that shrinking government, well...not high and dry.

Wouldn't you? Maybe they could use a reminder if they're not already donors...
list of NoDeathTax.org friends below

give a boost @ the dKos crosspost

Now that the MSM has finally decided that someone should be accountable, these groups probably don't follow the news much. I think we should look 'em up to give a shout that hey, the time is now!.

If you do, please post contact information so other kossacks might do the same...and build out the list of other Tax-Slayers if you find them.

Tax-Slayers, most likely to be generous? http://www.nodeathtax.org/links.htm

KATRINA AID: Are the Tax-Slayers donating?! | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

Just saw on Kos's Front page this goodie (5.00 / 1) (#4)

Senate Finance Committee members were informed this morning that Sen. Bill Frist will move forward with a vote to permanently repeal the estate tax next week, likely on Tuesday, ThinkProgress has learned.

One stands in awe of Sen. Frist's timing. Permanently repealing the estate tax would be a major blow to the nation's charities. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has "found that the estate tax encourages wealthy individuals to donate considerably more to charity , since estate tax liability is reduced through donations made both during life and at death." If there were no estate tax in 2000, for example, "charitable donations would have been between $13 billion to $25 billion lower than they actually were."

Just thought this info pertained to Luaptifer's commentary.

by Cho on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 04:48:25 PM EST

: just how far removed from reality will those (5.00 / 1) (#5)

aholes paint their Dali-esque self-portrait?!
from funereal black to blow-torch blue and back, my outrage is finally smoking a hole to the other side of 'stunned'.
those fuckers are still banking on the psychedelic fog they've shrouded the country in for years. it's in a smokey haze they project the time left before the tax coup for the rich turns into bits of bloody red.

i've said it before: where most Americans have a heart, rove keeps his calculator. time to break it.

by luaptifer on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 07:09:31 PM EST
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Do you want us to post any replies we get here? (none / 0) (#1)

If we get any replies or responses at all, that is?

Cho

by Cho on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 02:57:23 PM EST

: posting responses would be excellent (none / 0) (#3)

i was hoping to actually GET to doing some of the work I was also recruiting people for but, dang, also found it impossible to prop up on the dKos diaries list as i pimped for its recommendation there.
real life got put off til late afternoon, i have to run to other things now. will update later i guess.

by luaptifer on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 03:31:06 PM EST
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