Trump tweet threatens tax-exempt status of schools, colleges
Source: Politico
President Donald Trump said Friday he's instructed the Treasury Department to review the tax-exempt status of U.S. schools, colleges and universities, in a pair of tweets that advanced his administration's weeklong drive to turn education into a political wedge issue.
"Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education," Trump tweeted.
"Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status...... and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!"
The vast majority of U.S. public and private universities and colleges are tax-exempt entities because of their educational purposes or the fact that they are entities of state governments, according to the Association of American Universities.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/10/trump-threatens-schools-colleges-356294
Orange cRiminal is going apesh*t crazy again.
tblue37
(65,409 posts)Lock him up.
(6,933 posts)But schools and colleges?
The maggot has no clue about what they teach, yet... "Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education,"
LOCK HIM UP!
MAKE JUSTICE GREAT AGAIN
BComplex
(8,054 posts)pulpit, he will back off the schools. The churches will insist on it.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)You mean like critical thinking and research? GOP likes propaganda.
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AllaN01Bear
(18,264 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)bringthePaine
(1,729 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)i cannot believe we cannot stop this crazy train. the propaganda is nazi level, rwanda level fucking BULLSHIT.
Lock him up.
(6,933 posts)MAKE JUSTICE GREAT AGAIN
barbtries
(28,799 posts)i'll only be a little less pissed off than i am already if he doesn't get locked up. seriously, he and his administration should be subject to an international trial for crimes against humanity for immigrants, and i don't know what crime (there ought to be one) for his willful decision to let 100s of 1000s americans die unnecessarily from covid.
my worst nightmare at this point is that i will not live to see him gone.
AllaN01Bear
(18,264 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,191 posts)war on education for theocratic rule
He thinks he's winning.
pwb
(11,276 posts)It is his revenge for that story about his education. He is little in every regard. I doubt he can do it. He does not have that power. He thinks his tweets are law?
Docreed2003
(16,865 posts)Thanks for clarifying that Donnie, you asshole
Calista241
(5,586 posts)Like limiting all state funded scholarships to STEM fields.
hlthe2b
(102,297 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)When schools push back on reopening, hell be using this as attack and leverage.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)That would lose him his base. Pure bluster. Plus you'd needs acts of Congress, and it'd get entangled with First Amendment religion ideas - you can't take it away from non-religious schools while keeping it for religious ones, and taking it away from all would, in the current SC climate, probably be seen as attacking freedom of religion (see those crappy contraception rules).
ProfessorGAC
(65,078 posts)Touch one school, they sue or get an injunction. Others at risk, join in.
Any attempt will grind to halt.
Another case of promises unfulfilled by PINO.
lonely bird
(1,687 posts)You can screw around with the tax situation of schools...
JUST AS SOON AS WE SEE YOUR TAXES, YOU ASSHAT!
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)usajumpedtheshark
(672 posts)Anything to divide the population even more
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)The Catholic Church is the largest religious group that maintains schools/universities/academies and enjoys its tax-free basis. In my estimation the Catholic Church is only very spotty in its "radical left indoctrination," however Chump seems to think otherwise. He'll find out when Catholic voters abandon him in November.
We already know that Chump will do ANYTHING to assure his re-election, including deals Satan or any other devil. Let's make sure he's out of a job and on his way to jail by next January.