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Tax Exemption: Constitutional Right Or Government-granted Privilege?


In particular, I am referring to exemptions from paying federal income tax. Ever since the 16th Amendment was added to the Constitution and the first federal income tax was passed in 1913, the federal government has recognized that houses of worship (obviously due to the First Amendment’s freedom of religion clause), charities, social welfare organizations, and certain other so-called non- profit organizations had the right not to pay income tax.
However, in 1954, Congress amended tax laws to strictly regulate political activities by tax-exempt non-profits.
Moreover, except for religious entities, non-profits are generally required to petition the IRS in order to be granted exemption from income tax.
Fast forward to 2013 and the current IRS scandal. The Tea Party-affiliated groups and other political-oriented organizations claim to be harassed and intimidated by the IRS. It’s one thing to exercise your First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of association by forming groups to oppose the current Obama regime. But, it’s another thing to petition the government for special privileges (i.e. tax-exempt status).

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How To Be Registered With The Eastern Band Of Cherokee?


I’ve recently found out (according to my father) that I’m 1/16th Cherokee, which, according to what I’ve read, is supposed to be a qualifying amount to be registered with the EBC.
I’ve known pretty much all my life that I was some degree of Cherokee, and I knew that it had to be not too far off because I show a lot of the features (dark hair and eyes, facial structure, etc). I’ve had people ask me if I was Cherokee and how much without me mentioning it, so I finally decided to ask how close it was.
Now that I know that it’s close enough, I was wondering what steps you have to take to actually become part of a tribe. I’m not looking for the benefits or anything (to be honest, I’m not even sure if there even are “benefits” or what those benefits would be), I just really like the culture and the history and think that it would be an awesome privilege to be affiliated with them.
Do you think I’m taking too much of a leap, here? I wouldn’t want to try anything that would be disrespectful toward them. If not, I’d really like to know how I could actually do something about joining.

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What Must We Do About The Unthinking Majority?


The unthinking majority are damaging our system. I think we should implement a 5 question logic/knowledge test at the voting booths. It should be intended to count the smarter 50% of voters and to ignore the vote of dumber 50%. Who here would agree with this? If we had this, we would be able to progress this country much faster.
questions would be:
1) Rewrite the following word 3 times with spaces in between: privilege.
2) 55*1000+100*6 =
3) What is the subject of the following sentence: The cat is grey.
4) Who is the current President and what political party is he/she affiliated with?
5) If two sodas are $3. Then 200 sodas of the same type would cost how much?
I know these question seem like a 1st grader can answer them, but there is an unthinking majority who wouldn’t know where to start. If we can’t get rid of these people, let’s get rid of their influence in this world.
Am I too radical? Or is this an okay proposition.

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