Taxpayers Subsidized Dylann Roof's Hate Group

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/30918-taxpayers-subsidized-dylann-roofs-hate-group

Alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof wrote that he was never the same after discovering a website with “pages upon pages of these brutal black on white murders.”

The pages that left Roof in disbelief were the product of a white-nationalist group subsidized by American taxpayers.

The Council of Conservative Citizens Inc. is listed by the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit organization that promotes social welfare, also known as a 501(c)(4). Such groups pay no federal taxes, a form of government subsidy. As the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, noted, tax exemptions "have the same effect as Government payments to favored taxpayers."

The council is now under fire for allegedly inspiring racial hatred in Roof, a 21-year-old high school dropout. He is charged with nine counts of murder.

Tax-exempt social welfare groups are supposed to “primarily promote the common good and general welfare of the people of the community as a whole,” according to IRS documents.

The Council of Conservative Citizens explains on its website that its members believe “that the American people and government should remain European in their composition and character…. We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind.”

Groups that espouse hate can be stripped of their tax-exempt status, said Marcus Owens, who ran the IRS’s exempt organizations division in the 1990s. That happened to the neo-Nazi group National Alliance in 1982. The Council of Conservative Citizens has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “notorious, racist hate group.”

[Omaha Steve]

1. Thanks for posting

Great info. K&R!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. K&R

[Enthusiast]

3. The Council of Conservative Citizens Inc. obviously does not promote community social welfare.

They should lose their tax exempt status. Makes one wonder how many more hate groups enjoy such special consideration.

[peacebird]

4. American Renaissance and New Century Foundation are two of their other, more profitable sites

All are tax exempt. All need to lose that status.

American Ren is a website and magazine, very slick, very sick.

[MisterP]

8. Renaissance is for the highbrow, *professional* "race realist"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miele
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Pearson_%28anthropologist%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glayde_Whitney

[riversedge]

5. whow.

[Jamastiene]

6. K&R

Why is this allowed? If they are espousing hate, and this group certainly is, why don't they lose their tax exempt status?

[pansypoo53219]

7. the 501(C)4 HAS TO DIE. no more tax breaks for any charity.