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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

When it comes to racial and economic justice and government taxation, federal policy tends to get the most attention. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging shifting the tax burden from the well-to-do to the least well off.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Our reigning frameworks for taxation and securities don’t enable the kinds of association required. The 2020 film Wonder Woman 1984 featured the Black Gold Cooperative, a fraudulent enterprise seeking to persuade retail investors to co-purchase defunct oil fields. Rather, policy prevents it in often subtle ways.

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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

According to Gresser, “Overall, the effect of the bill, especially in combination with the tariffs, is to shift taxation from wealthy people to hourly wage families, and likewise from businesses that use a lot of goods—[such as] manufacturers, retailers, construction companies, and farmers—to businesses that don’t use a lot of goods, such as financial (..)

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Why Economic Development Subsidies Are Racist—and What to Do About Them

NonProfit Quarterly

TIFs, especially, became associated with suburban sprawl—subsidizing big-box retail that sucked jobs and sales tax revenue away from central cities and older suburbs. Louis metro area, issued a devastating analysis of how $2 billion in TIF funds to retail had subsidized the hollowing out of the region. Louis Region,” January 2011, p.

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Why You Should Focus Your Fundraising Efforts on Generating Gifts of Wealth (from Assets) Not on Disposable Income (from Credit Cards, Checks, or Cash)

iMarketSmart

5] This was done by acquiring ownership in a retail stamps company, Blue Chip Stamps, and using the float to purchase shares of other companies. Visual planned giving in color: An introduction to the law & taxation of charitable gift planning. Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy, 14, 169-195. [4] See, The Science of Hitting.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Because higher education institutions provide the public good of education to surrounding communities, their property holdings are exempt from taxation in all 50 states. Colleges, universities, and their medical centers are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organizations.