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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Hurray you’re back! by ekhornbeck.
Vent Hole.
Not the deepest thing I’ve ever written, even today, but heartfelt and sincere.
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ekhornbeck wrote a new diary post: Hurray! You’re back!
Jane, I don’t mind admitting I missed you.
We lefties need to stick together.
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ekhornbeck commented on the blog post Late Night: IRS Apologizes for Doing Its Job
Gah! Stupid HTML! You get the picture.
Non-profit tax exempts can lobby all they like. The question is whether contributions are deductible.
If FDL is not a 501c4 Jane should get better lawyers.
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ekhornbeck commented on the blog post Late Night: IRS Apologizes for Doing Its Job
[What Is a 501c4 Organization? http://suite101.com/article/what-is-a-501c4-organization-a14959
Posted by Estela Kennen, Suite 101
Nov 1, 2006501c4s are a common type of non-profit organization that can engage in lobbying or political campaigning.
501(c)4s are tax-exempt non-profit organizations. More specifically, according to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), 501(c)(4)s are:
* “civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare,
* “or local associations of employees, the membership of which is limited to the employees of a designated person or persons in a particular municipality,
* “and the net earnings of which are devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes.”
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If you are planning on doing limited or no lobbying and no campaigning, then you probably want the 501(c)3 tax-exemption so that people can benefit from donating to your organization (unless you represent the state or a political subdivision thereof). However, if your organization will be doing substantial lobbying or any campaigning, you should form a 501(c)4.To sum up- the question is whether contributions are charitable deductions, the organization is tax exempt.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Did You Know that the United Kingdom Censored Animal Farm? Here’s Why: by inoljt.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Reinhart and Rogoff are WRONG! by ekhornbeck.
Well, we need to put the word out on the street.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Reinhart and Rogoff are WRONG! by ekhornbeck.
Agreed. Sometimes I like to use classical analysis though just to make sure I don’t get tied up in debates that are not central to my main argument.
In this instance even from a neo classical Samuelson standpoint Reinhart and Rogoff are flat. dead. WRONG!
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Reinhart and Rogoff are WRONG! by ekhornbeck.
Vent Hole
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ekhornbeck wrote a new diary post: Reinhart and Rogoff are WRONG!
Crossposted from The Stars Hollow Gazette How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff’s Arithmetic Mistake? Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy ReSearch Tuesday, 16 April 2013 09:49
Just to remind folks, Reinhart and Rogoff (R&R) are the authors of the widely acclaimed book on the history of financial crises, This Time is Different . They have also done [...]
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ekhornbeck commented on the blog post Obama Administration Excludes National Security Policies from Commitment to Transparency
Well gee, how about applying some of that non-National Security transparency to the Trans-Pacific Partnership he’s negotiating in secret with 100 corporate lobbyists?
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Mind blowing. First the Rand Paul filibuster, Now a Speech at CPAC for Breaking Up “Too Big to Fail” Banks by joanneleon.
Very nice.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Food Sunday: Trying to Master Sourdough While Contemplating Catastrophic Global Warming by EdwardTeller.
Glad to see you’re positive enough to try sourdough, though yeast will survive, they always do.
I don’t mind admitting you’ve given me days of nightmares.
Thank you and keep digging.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post The White Rose by cmaukonen.
I’ve been talking about The White Rose for many years now.
I used to wonder. Now I don’t.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Defending the Tubz by ekhornbeck.
My absence was… unexpected.
But I have my own thing happening now so it’s all good. Drop by any time and I’ll try to keep posting items I think will be of interest here.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Defending the Tubz by ekhornbeck.
Thank you for your attention DW.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Defending the Tubz by ekhornbeck.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Defending the Tubz by ekhornbeck.
Vent Hole
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ekhornbeck wrote a new diary post: Defending the Tubz
Crossposted from DocuDharma I think it’s obvious why the more autocratic, authoritarian, and avaricious elements of the current criminal crony system of monarchist mercantile monopolism are constantly attempting to change the commons culture of the Internet. They want to be able to charge you for access to the library/thesaurus/dictionary/encyclopedia/studio/printing press. If you’re like me you’ve already switched [...]
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post NYC Threatens to Shut Down Occupy Sandy Relief Sites by TobyWollin.
Thank you.
If you were looking to get people all fired up, you certainly got me all fired up.
http://www.thestarshollowgazette.com/diary/6996/eviction-of-occupy-sandy-staten-island
http://www.docudharma.com/diary/31495/eviction-of-occupy-sandy-staten-islandI didn’t use BREAKING !!!!1! but that’s certainly how I feel. Secondary sources on Google News are notably absent at this point.
Hopefully that will change.
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ekhornbeck commented on the diary post Sorry, but this blog has been marked as spam by Kurt Sperry.
Lots of links are screwed up, including the ones to this piece which is available through the Front Page recommended list, but not through its links in the MyFDL recent or recommended lists.
Of course this happens quite a bit for me and I usually attribute it to Wordpress funkiness.
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