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To: steve harris who wrote (12147)12/7/2005 8:25:08 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 20039
 
steve > The politicians act like what they think we want

You are right and if the truth be told they are no better than paid whores. The trouble is one doesn't know who is paying them the most? The electorate may feel that their contributions are sufficient but they may be sorely mistaken. And this does not only happen in the US.

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>>But if political activities and so-called political groups, whose intentions are for the benefit of all the American people including their ultimate goal in ensuring the freedoms of Americans are excluded from tax-exempt status by the IRS, why then are donations to the foreign State of Israel allowed as sheltered contributions? AIPAC lobbies exclusively for Israel, and has as part of its agenda, the maintenance of their tax-exempt status. The question is not as to why AIPAC wishes to maintain its tax-exempt status - the question is why American government allows contributions for a powerful foreign lobby to remain tax-exempt? <<