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Barry Butterfield's avatar

Formula for success - (a) pick a problem, (b) blow it out of proportion, (c) make people afraid of it, (d) ask for money.

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Wes Flynn's avatar

That is, indeed, the recipe! It needs an '(e)', though ... (e) Wash, rinse, repeat. :-D

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Barry Butterfield's avatar

yep you are exactly right! thanks

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Wes Flynn's avatar

A tangible solution that our captured state government will never implement: Make all tax-exempt organizations legally subject to CORA (Colorado Open Records Act) requirements. Want tax exemption ... great, all 501(x)(n) organizations are subject to CORA. Colorado is currently undergoing an invasion of NGOs operated by non-local people with the sole purpose of interfering in our local politics, and they're anything from think tanks to political advocacy organizations to pseudo-media outlets that double as advocacy orgs. CORA the 501 racketeers ASAP ...

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Green Leap Forward's avatar

Haha! I was going to text you this comment only to see you wrote it!

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Wes Flynn's avatar

Spread the word! :-D

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Green Leap Forward's avatar

Sticker* the word.

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Gracchus's avatar

This is why the NGO shadow state is freaking out over DOGE. In the past it's been nigh impossible to follow the money. Big data graph analysis on the Treasury SPS (Secure Payments System), combined with other big datasets, solves that problem.

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Waspi, Kevin G's avatar

Another example of the tax code weaponized against the commoner. Sad, but many of the communist efforts to starve this country into the stone age are using tools "we the people" put in their hands.

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