Take, for example, the world of higher education: should we consider wealthy private universities like Harvard or Stanford to be part of a separate category of organizations – nonprofit corporations – that is both distinct from for-profit businesses and deserves tax-exempt status?
If the answer is no, then proudly explain why these hard-working, tax-paying families don't deserve tax relief".
2. Giant advertising campaigns to convince Americans climate change is a myth, the Affordable Care Act will harm them, unions are bad, and wealthy people deserve tax cuts.
In today's economy there isn't a neat dividing line between "decent, hardworking people" who deserve tax breaks and help, and the feckless poor.
Republicans "think all Americans deserve tax relief, not just the handful the president picks," said Representative Bill Archer, the Texas Republican who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
One could argue that we all deserve tax relief from the multitude of taxes everyone pays, but there is another argument for why the poor should also be compensated.
The proposed filing, by VSP Vision Care of Rancho Cordova, Calif., highlights a major debate in the nonprofit arena over what activities deserve tax exemption when most nonprofit groups charge fees for services and products to supplement their income from charitable donations.
What I want to know is whether Harriet Harman is prepared to stand by her statement that parents who need childcare deserve tax relief far more than corporate-types visiting lapdancing clubs.
In the same cable, Medina is reported as saying that the US government, "can demonstrate the group [Sea Shepherd] does not deserve tax exempt status based on their aggressive and harmful actions".
Nonprofit health care providers in particular have struggled to distinguish themselves from their for-profit counterparts in recent years as federal lawmakers have questioned why they deserve tax exemptions.
