In a message dated 10/4/2009 11:16:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rogerandvi...@gmail.com writes:
This may be a sacrilige, but I think that as long as we have sales and property taxes, then why shouldn't every operation have to pay them? [For example, schools, universities, churches.] Granting exemptions to these groups skews the real cost of these organizations. I guess most of them do perform a real public service, but then so do cafes, to name just one example (chosen at random). Roger & Dan (the only responder so far) each have points. Non-profits (the tax-exempt) are set up to provide public services -- but many of us greedy capitalists do this, too. However, shouldn't the "real" question have to do with tax-exempt non-profits who compete with the private sector and who shouldn't get this particular advantage when they do? And, to what extent would this apply when the competition is direct (e.g., a community group that sold advertising for its newsletter in competition with a community newspaper publisher) or indirect (an orchestra that competes for people's "out on the town" entertainment dollars with movies, cafes, casinos, ladies' mud wrestling extravaganzas, etc)? Alan Krigman KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com
