{"id":27175,"date":"2015-12-16T17:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27175"},"modified":"2015-12-16T17:43:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:43:43","slug":"using-taxpayer-money-to-make-political-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27175","title":{"rendered":"Using Taxpayer Money To Make Political Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that there are some people who want government-funded political campaigns. That is not what this article is about. I am talking about groups that accept government funding and then make campaign contributions.<\/p>\n<p>I object. If the taxpayers want to give the money to either the group or the political campaign, they can do that without the government being in the middle. Two groups that take money from the government and lobby and have <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Political action committee\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_action_committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Political Action Committees<\/a> (PAC&#8217;s) are <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"AARP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">AARP<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Planned Parenthood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Planned Parenthood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/12\/11\/planned-parenthood-among-top-nonprofits-spending-more-than-irs-allows-to-influence-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart.com<\/a> posted an article about the finances of Planned Parenthood. The article states:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PlannedParenthood.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PlannedParenthood.png\" alt=\"PlannedParenthood\" width=\"630\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PlannedParenthood.png 630w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PlannedParenthood-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PlannedParenthood-331x300.png 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cClearly political activity is not considered social welfare under the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Treasury regulations\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treasury_regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Treasury regulations<\/a>,\u201d Marc Owens, a tax attorney and former head of the IRS tax-exempt organizations unit, told Open Secrets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The other named groups are: The Green Tech Action Fund, Citizens for a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Working America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.workingamerica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Working America<\/a>, Citizens for the Republic, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> Values Action, Hispanic Leadership Fund, New Models, Common Sense Movement, West Virginia Conservative Foundation, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"American Action Network\" href=\"http:\/\/americanactionnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">American Action Network<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Americans for Job Security\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Americans_for_Job_Security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Americans for Job Security<\/a>, VoteVets.org, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vets For Freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vets_For_Freedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Vets for Freedom<\/a>, Colorado Family Action, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Americans for Tax Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Americans for Tax Reform<\/a>, and Winning Message Action Fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We need to elect people to Congress that will enforce the laws currently on the books evenly and will stop giving taxpayer money to organizations that make political contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that there are some people who want government-funded political campaigns. That is not what this article is about. I am talking about groups that accept government funding and then make campaign contributions. I object. If the taxpayers want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2019],"class_list":["post-27175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-planned-parenthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27177,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27175\/revisions\/27177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}