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Per Washington Post: “The tax return, which The Washington Post obtained from the organization, says the NRA “became aware during 2019 of a significant diversion of its assets.” The 2019 filing states that LaPierre and five former officials received “excess benefits,” a term the IRS uses when officials have enriched themselves at the expense of a nonprofit entity.” Sad news, but not surprising. Try here: https://www.washingtonpost.com...2c0b8d571_story.html Less is more. | ||
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| Help! Help! I'm being repressed!  |
Fuck that guy. He's the reason I haven't joined the NRA. I did join the Gun Owners of America though. | |||
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So, now the IRS determines what “excessive” is? How do you get a bunch of conservatives to cheer on the IRS? Have them investigate the NRA. Which works great until the IRS arbitrarily decides your return is excessive. | |||
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| Just for the hell of it  |
While I'm not a fan on LaPaierre I also not trusting of the Washington Post. They have shown to be anti-NRA and I'm sure will lead an article to show trouble with the organization. Might be true but I would like to see some other info. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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| No, not like Bill Clinton  |
The IRS and MSN? Totally trustworthy | |||
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All one needs to know about the Washington Post is who owns it... https://www.forbes.com/sites/s...ost/?sh=393960d83aab | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Yeah, no kidding. STOP TRUSTING THE MEDIA. Even if there is some truth in their reporting, it is all fake. Don't trust a single bit of it. Stop listening to these people who hate you. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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What he said. Their articles are 99.999% liberal garbage, I skim thru the www site daily and often hate myself afterwards. I have family in western MD I visit about once a year. I used to buy the Sunday ComPost there until my brother went ballistic and urged me to stop. | |||
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I agree. If this is done to try to cripple the NRA, I guess I am going to have to rejoin. . | |||
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Past Master |
The Washington post, I'm going to need more than that. _______________________________________________________________ It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman www.CrossCountryQuilting.com "Deep in the heart of the Ozarks" | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
IMO, the best part of the story was this: I agree 100% with Pincus and have posted that repeatedly since the story first broke 1.5 years ago. I am an Endowment level member and I want the NRA to be the 800 lb gorrilla that makes Congressional Critters piss their pants. To do that they need to clean house (e.g. LaPierre), set-up appropriate financial controls (fixing their tax return is a good start), treat their legal entities separate as required by laws (i.e. stop intermixing funds), audit their subcontractors (e.g. ad agencies and lawyers), and they need to significantly decrease the number of board members (there is no oversight when there is a 76 member board). Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Yes, everyone hates the IRS and the corrupt media. That's a given. But, if anyone here still thinks that LaPierre is still a force of good that will lift the NRA out of its current mess, you're out of your mind. That jerk, and those that have been enabling him, needs to go. Q | |||
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Rob Pincus is media director for https://www.savethe2a.org/ I too am an NRA life member. I've looked at the www site but that's it. | |||
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| No double standards |
I think that covers it. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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How do we the NRA members speed that process along? Working from home a little now, I've got a bit of time for some letter-writing.... God bless America. | |||
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The article is behind a paywall so I can't read it, But the IRS code has lots of sections that deal with the subject of 'excessive'. Its not a determination in the sense you think about some bureaucrat deciding something but tax code sections that are intended to insure that certain things happen. Like that the top executives can't have better pension benefits by more than a certain amount than average beneficiaries or that you can't contribute and benefit to some plans above a certain amount. etc. etc. We have to see way more of the details to really know anything. But suffice it to say in my mind LaPierre was paid more than he was worth and needs to go. “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.” | |||
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I belong to NRA and will continue to. Lapierre needs to go and now. Why cant the members make this happen? End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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IRS rules succinctly state how much administrative expenses are allowed for 501C entities, as well as other topics. These items have been adjudicated and are sufficiently applicable throughout. Hardly arbitrary. ========================================== Just my 2¢ ____________________________ Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right ♫♫♫ | |||
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This Benefactor Member agrees with you 100%! -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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| No double standards |
I can't argue. But I also can't forget Lois Lerner of the IRS targeting conservative non profits, the FBI said she did nothing wrong. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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