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Left or right, taxpayers shouldn\u2019t have to subsidize political activism they oppose, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is drafting plans to ensure they don\u2019t by revoking tax exemptions from bogus political \u201ccharities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As The Post\u2019s James Franey reports, Bessent and the IRS are taking a hard look at the conduct of up to a dozen or so high-profile lefty nonprofits \u2014 including George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Council on American-Islamic Relations \u2014 with an eye toward possibly revoking their tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n

That could mean a $165 million windfall in new tax payments from these groups \u2014 and, more important, end taxpayer subsidies for dubious or even rancid political activism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woke left wants to \u2018tax the rich,\u2019 but these same lefty groups will do anything they can to avoid paying their own taxes, including breaking the law,\u201d snarked one source familiar with Treasury\u2019s plans. \u201cIt\u2019s hypocrisy at its finest.\u201d<\/p>\n

To qualify for a 501(c)(3) tax exemption, nonprofits typically must operate \u201cexclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or\u00a0educational purposes\u201d; they\u2019re expressly prohibited <\/em>from excessive lobbying or promoting \u201cpropaganda,\u201d legislation or political candidates\u2019 campaigns.<\/p>\n

Treasury is reportedly looking to treat nonprofits that are political activists in disguise as businesses or political machines for tax purposes, as per the law.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s appropriate. Open Society, after all, famously uses its billions to fund groups that back far-left causes \u2014 including criminal-justice reforms, climate change, legal privileges for illegal immigrants, DEI and more. <\/p>\n

Why shouldn\u2019t it have to pay its \u201cfair share,\u201d rather than force other Americans \u2014 most of whom object to much of its agenda \u2014 to pick up the tab?<\/p>\n

CAIR, too, spends much of its time and money slamming a key US ally, Israel. That\u2019s <\/em>not political?<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s also been accused of having ties to Qatar and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial.<\/p>\n

Just this month, prosecutors charged the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s ex-finance officer, Heidi Beirich, with leading a scheme that \u201cknowingly misled donors\u201d and funneled cash to \u201csenior leadership\u201d at a white supremacist group. (Her lawyer insists she\u2019s innocent.)<\/p>\n

Plus, the SPLC promotes blatantly political positions, like ending \u201cunjust imprisonment,\u201d eliminating \u201ceconomic inequality\u201d and legislation to \u201cexpand access to the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has fiercely attacked critics of causes it supports, including DEI, school-based lefty indoctrination programs, allowing boys into girls\u2019 sports and bathrooms.<\/p>\n

In 2023, it tarred harmless pro-child activists at Moms for Liberty as a \u201chate\u201d group.<\/p>\n

And yet it\u2019s somehow tax-exempt.<\/p>\n

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The Soros \u201ccharity\u201d vehemently insists Treasury has no excuse for looking at it; CAIR and the SPLC declined to comment on the issue.<\/p>\n

The probe may target other lefty groups, including MediaJustice, which lobbies for racial-equity policies in the telecom industry, defunding police tech and censoring online \u201cdisinformation,\u201d as well as labor-backed entities like the Service Employees International Union\u2019s Strategic Organizing Center and the anti-Amazon Athena Coalition.<\/p>\n

Bessent and his team are on the right track: Private groups have every right to promote their political agendas \u2014 but no right at all to taxpayer support for that activism.<\/p>\n

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Especially <\/em>when the taxpayers find those agendas so abhorrent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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