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tizzo

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Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3139547
Laugh - the attorney general's office went after Walgreens in Missouri...

I'm still now sure I'm getting the correlation. How'd we go from talking about ACORN, to walgreens??
 
zman1

zman1

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Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3138924
Did you really expect ACORN to post their activity that violated their 501 c 3 status online?

Again, I was just providing information that there are two seperate entities of ACORN. Perhaps your upthread comment may have some faults to it....
How is supporting your so called left wing politics a violation of their tax exempt status? Perhaps see # 1 below.
I know this could present an issue with your blanket statement, however, though inconvenient, it is the fact there are two separate entities...
1. ACORN is a non-profit organization with no special tax status and therefore. This means that it is free to participate in direct legislative lobbying and contributions and bequests to it are not tax-deductible.
2. The ACORN Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization, is not involved in direct legislative lobbying and all contributions and donations made to the ACORN Institute are tax-deductible.
 
zman1

zman1

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Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/3139554
I'm still now sure I'm getting the correlation. How'd we go from talking about ACORN, to walgreens??
Up thread
The connection of criminal enterprises - to a Darth statement - or question
"what are the odds of finding 4 bad employees all willing to circumvent the law in the same ways..."
I just gave examples - Are you okay with it?
 
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tizzo

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Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3139562
Up thread
The connection of criminal enterprises - to a Darth statement - or question
"what are the odds of finding 4 bad employees all willing to circumvent the law in the same ways..."
I just gave examples - Are you okay with it?

Hey, no need for the sarcasm, it was a sincere inquiry...
I didn't dog the responses, I just asked...
 
reefraff

reefraff

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Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3139559
Again, I was just providing information that there are two seperate entities of ACORN. Perhaps your upthread comment may have some faults to it....
How is supporting your so called left wing politics a violation of their tax exempt status? Perhaps see # 1 below.
I know this could present an issue with your blanket statement, however, though inconvenient, it is the fact there are two separate entities...
1. ACORN is a non-profit organization with no special tax status and therefore. This means that it is free to participate in direct legislative lobbying and contributions and bequests to it are not tax-deductible.
2. The ACORN Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization, is not involved in direct legislative lobbying and all contributions and donations made to the ACORN Institute are tax-deductible.
Their get out the vote efforts are done under the 501 c 3. When they do stuff like throw away republican voter registration cards or their van driver encourages people being driven to the polls to vote for Obama they violate the law.
 
reefraff

reefraff

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Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3139547
Laugh - the attorney general's office went after Walgreens in Missouri...
So what? You have a private business getting hassled in one state because they didn't put enough effort into making sure minors weren't able to go in and buy cigarettes vs. government funded group giving people advice on how to defraud the government, exploit underage girls for prostitution, violating immigration laws, offering to help violate immigration laws, Voter registration fraud, tax evasion etc.
Walgreens has the same problem with kids trying to buy smokes EVERY OTHER CIG RETAILER HAS. How many other "community organizer" groups have had anything close to what is going on with ACORN?
 
angler man

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So what? You have a private business getting hassled in one state because they didn't put enough effort into making sure minors weren't able to go in and buy cigarettes vs. government funded group giving people advice on how to defraud the government, exploit underage girls for prostitution, violating immigration laws, offering to help violate immigration laws, Voter registration fraud, tax evasion etc.
Yeah, I'm not seeing how one is anywhere close to the other.
One effects us directly(tax money), the other is a private institution getting in trouble over selling cigarettes.
The bigger question is how involved is ACORN with SEIU or vise versa. How high does the corruption go? Who is giving the marching orders? These people were taught to deal with people this way, they didn't just pull this out of their @sses.
This is only going to get better. Also, it sounds like they have more tapes but aren't releasing them so I wonder how many more establishments they hit?
 
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