#exemptions

[saywhat-politics]

Trump has set up an “electronic mailbox” for corporations to ask him for exemptions to the Clean Air Act. The exemptions would allow companies to pollute the air with mercury, which can cause brain damage and birth defects.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Should parents, students, and employees be allowed religious exemptions from vaccine mandates? More state lawmakers are now being asked to decide as new bills emerge across the country.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/vaccine-safety-health/8-states-weigh-bills-to-establish-or-expand-exemptions-to-school-vaccine-mandates

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[captainxtra]

GOP Advances 'Nonprofit Killer' Provision in Budget Bill to 'Crush Dissent' | Common Dreams

"This measure would undoubtedly be weaponized by a White House with a track record of attacks against any speech that displeases our authori

Take action:

Nonprofit organizations should contact their Republican Representatives and Senators to urge them to protect the nonprofit sector in tax reconciliation.  

Please urge your Republican Representatives and Senators to:

OPPOSE granting unprecedented authority to the Executive Branch to revoke nonprofit status from organizations without due process. This provision allows Administrations to target charitable nonprofits based on ideological grounds.

OPPOSE new or expanded taxes on nonprofit organizations, including private foundations. These proposals divert scarce resources away from essential services, undermine the ability of charitable nonprofit organizations to meet needs in their communities, and put greater strain on government. See NCN’s one-pager on protecting nonprofits in tax reconciliation for more information.

SUPPORT and EXPAND tax incentives for charitable giving. Congress should include in the tax reconciliation bill the Charitable Act, introduced by Sen. Lankford (R-OK) and Rep. Moore (R-UT), to create a non-itemizer tax incentive for charitable donations to nonprofit organizations. See NCN’s one-pager on the Charitable Act and factsheet on the nonprofit sector for more information.

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Next steps:

Since it’s passed Committee, the bill will be quickly combined with legislation approved by other committees, before heading the House floor for a vote as soon as the week of May 19.

By using the reconciliation process, Republicans can enact the tax bill with only a simple majority vote in the House and Senate. Republicans, however, have a very narrow majority in the House; Republican leaders cannot afford to lose more than three votes in order to pass the package as written. If Republican leadership garners enough support to pass the bill, it will then head to the Senate for a vote on the floor before going to the President’s desk for a signature. Leaders have indicated the 4th of July as a goal deadline for passage.

Based on a number of factors, NCN believes our best opportunity to change the tax bill is in the Senate.

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I can offer this advice in convincing GOP or even MAGA reps:

[gettothedancing]

The absence of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with dental health facilities was cited as a reason for excluding that industry.

Of course, this is the mandate the Supreme Court declined to block, even though it has no religious exemptions. And newspapers in Maine are trying to legally acquire the names of the anonymous health care workers that sued to block that mandate.

[fieriframes]

[A man and a woman sitting at a table, caption: Are there no reprieves or exemptions for actors?]

[staceybombacey]

Mondays... Overthinking is by far my biggest flaw, there isn’t any aspect of my life that is exempt from that trait. I find it soon follows after self doubt and it’s a vicious cycle of one after another when that occurs. I’m lacking confidence lately and my job that I normally love and excel at I find myself doubting my abilities not to mention it impacting other part of my life and sensibility.

[isomorphismes]

For most of its history, the United States did not have an income tax. An attempt in 1894 to institute a federal income tax to compensate for the loss of tariff duties was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. In 1909, the resolution proposing the Sixteenth Amendment was passed by the Congress and submitted to the state legislatures. The amendment allowed Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the census. In 1910, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, shortly before becoming a Supreme Court Justice, spoke out against the income tax amendment. Hughes supported the idea of a federal income tax, but believed the proposed wording "from whatever source derived"  implied that the federal government would have the power to tax state and municipal bonds. Governor Hughes believed this would excessively centralize governmental power. The first federal tax code was enacted eight months after the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified -- including a federal tax exemption for municipal bonds under the doctrine of reciprocal immunity. The doctrine is that state and local governments should not tax the federal government, and the federal government should not tax state and local governments. The tax exemption remains today. The 1913 Tax Code was just 27 pages in length. The Code included eleven personal deductions and exclusions in addition to the municipal bond exemption, including: • Exemption for life insurance death benefits; • Deductions for trade or business expenses; • Deductions for interest payments; • Deductions for federal, state and local taxes; • Deductions for casualty losses; • Deduction for losses from bad debts; • Deduction for depreciation related to property used in a business; • Deduction for dividend income that had been taxed at the corporate level; • Deduction for income on which tax had already been withheld; • Exclusion for the compensation of the President, Supreme Court and other federal judges, and compensation of all officers and employees of States or political subdivisions; • Personal exemption. The first legal service publication of all relevant rules, regulations, opinions and judicial decisions related to the 1913 Code was 400 pages. Today, that volume has grown to 73,954 pages!

[yesterdaysprint]

The Tacoma Times, Washington, August 21, 1917