{"id":178912,"date":"2018-07-20T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/20\/how-convenient-9\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T01:07:00","slug":"how-convenient-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/20\/how-convenient-9\/","title":{"rendered":"How Convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to revelations that the NRA has been laundering foreign money for political lobbying, Trump&#8217;s Treasury Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-tax-groups\/us-treasury-moves-to-protect-identities-of-dark-money-political-donors-idUSKBN1K704F\">has eliminated donor disclosure requirements<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that it will no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups, such as the National Rifle Association and Planned Parenthood, to identify their financial donors to U.S. tax authorities.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The policy change, heralded by conservatives as an advance for free speech, maintains donor disclosure requirements for traditional charity groups organized to receive tax-exempt donations under a section of the Internal Revenue code known as 501(c)(3), the Treasury said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the move frees labor unions, issue advocacy organizations, veterans groups and other nonprofits that do not receive tax-exempt money from meeting confidential disclosure requirements set in place decades ago. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, we already know that they are trying to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to revelations that the NRA has been laundering foreign money for political lobbying, Trump&#8217;s Treasury Secretary has eliminated donor disclosure requirements: The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that it will no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups, such as the National Rifle Association and Planned Parenthood, to identify their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[599,368,364,374,437,480],"class_list":["post-178912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-charity","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}