Charities Very Nervous Over Obamas Charitable Tax Code Proposal.
Charity groups are still jittery over a proposed tax change they say could cause wealthy donors to give less, despite assurances from President Obama this week that donations are unlikely to go down because of a reduction in the tax deduction for charitable contributions.
While Obama argues that his administration is trying to make sure low-income donors enjoy the same tax benefits for their giving as high-income donors, charities and the organizations that represent them say they are concerned they could end up paying the price for a more equitable tax code.
“To put any block between the donor and the charity at this time, I think, is not helpful,” said Lisa Hillman, board chairwoman for the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.
Obama told reporters during his prime-time press conference Tuesday that charities are wrong to assume the change will discourage donations.
“There’s very little evidence that this has a significant impact on charitable giving,” the president said.
But Hillman said her organization’s opposition to the change still stands.
“I want to believe him, but I don’t think that this … is helpful,” she said.
Ironically, Obama’s proposal to change tax policy is intended to help raise hundreds of billions of dollars for expanding health care — but Hillman said in the near-term, the tweak to charitable donations policy could put more strain on hospitals that rely heavily on philanthropy.
*****OK, this is what we call, in the vernacular, Spreading the wealth! Take from the donators who have the means to fund charitable programs and redistribute it to a social health care system, that will fail.*********
Henrietta Hughes-Professional Deadbeat?
02/17/09
With her obviously overfed cheeks, Henrietta Hughes appealed to the President saying she and her son were homeless, living in their truck and that all she wanted was a kitchen and a bathroom. After it was discovered that she is fraud (those of us with a smidgen of common sense knew this already) the liberal media didn’t bother issuing corrections. They just simply stopped talking about her. As it turns out, her son is 37 years old and very well nourished; as you will see in the video. Is anybody else appalled that a grown ass man will live in a truck with his mother!? Why isn’t he taking care of her? And what happened to their house?
The liberal media reported that Cory Hughes lost his job. They led the viewer to believe he lost it recently due to the bad economy. He was actually fired from his job as a program analyst with the City of Ft. Meyers back in 2002 because of “poor job performance and inadequate job knowledge,” according to the Fort Myers News-Press. Immediately after Obama’s tent revival in Ft. Meyers, Corey was offered a job with a concrete cutting company for $10/hour. Evidentally, that wasn’t to his liking as he states he is weighing his options.
The story about their house is just as puzzling. The liberal media reported that Henrietta lost her house due to foreclosure leading us to believe she lost it in the housing collapse of ’08. However, (you knew there would be a ‘however’) she actually had the foreclosure in 2003. Even more interesting is that Hnerietta claims they sold a piece of property in 2005; approx $47,000, and have been living on the proceeds. Some have searched the Lee County, Florida property records and have found no such transaction for either Henrietta Hughes or Cory Hughes. In fact the property in question is still owned by Corey Hughes and the taxes are current; paid on 01/01/09. Henrietta remains firm in her statement of having sold the property.
Immediately after Obama’s tent revival and Henrietta’s nation-wide plea for help, Tanya Johnson, the Director of We Care Outreach Ministry, came forward to reveal that she has been trying to help Henrietta and her son by offering them permanent housing free for the first 90 days. “We would have allowed her to stay for the first 90 days, no income, free,” said Ms. Johnson. She also says she gave Henrietta and Corey money and food and offered Corey job training courses, but it was refused. According to Hughes, We Care Outreach, “could not meet her needs,” and she claims Ms. Johnson “is lying.” Is anyone else as disgusted as I am?
Oh, the truck that Henrietta and her grown ass son have been living in? It’s a Nissan Frontier. Not exactly the beater the media led us to believe it was.
WINK News reporter, Nick Spinetto, interviewed Henrietta and Corey as they took posession of the home offered to them by Florida Republican State Representative Nick Thompson and his wife Chene. He also interviewed Tanya Johnson who stands firmly by her story.
