Breitbart: Presidential hopeful and socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has a long-held beef with charities, stemming all the way back to his time as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, as Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer reveals in his latest book Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite.
Sanders’ general distaste for charities shone through while he served as mayor of Burlington in the 1980s. He displayed a keen interest in growing his tax base and “put local charities on notice that he was in charge,” according to Schweizer.
As Profiles in Corruption details, Sanders, as mayor, took issue with non-profits and charitable organizations time and time again. In one instance, Sanders opposed the rules of a local homeless shelter, which essentially barred entry from individuals who were drunk or high. As a result, he “had the city set up its own competing shelter.”
Sanders also set his sights on the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, sending the nonprofit hospital a “$2.8 million property tax bill.”
As Profiles in Corruption details:
Never mind that as a nonprofit charity, it was exempt from paying property taxes. Sanders was challenging the hospital’s tax-exempt status. Mayor Sanders wanted some of the charity’s money for tax revenue. The charity had to take the mayor to court. The court sided with the charity.
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all Commie/Socialist shitweasels want to stop charities
charities are organized & ran by ‘the people’ … can’t have that!
Big Brother must pick the winners & losers!
it’s a basic Marxist tenant
A typical Commie who doesn’t want any competition with HIS government!
“All Yer Free Shit Comes From ME!!”
Not completely true. He is an avid fan of the Bernie for President charity. Running for President is a huge charity for all candidates. That’s a big reason you see so many not a chance in hell candidates at the start of every election cycle.
God is charity (undeserved grace and salvation). In a communist’s world view, State is God – giver of charity (which quickly devolves into entitlement).
Therefore God is a threat to a Communist’s power (derived through entitlement slavery) and must be removed from society.
Of course he doesn’t. He’s missing out on his cut before he doles 20% of it out. To his favorite charity.
He not only doesn’t believe in charities, he also doesn’t believe in doing personal work – going all the way back to his commune days where he got kicked out for being a lazy-ass, no load.
SUGGESTION FOR MR. FUR HAT
Given the paranoia about Bernie getting screwed again, would you start an open thread about the irregularities in Iowa tonight? Results should have been in hours ago.
I’m guessing there’s a lot of Bloomberg money talking behind the scenes right now, but would like to hear from my fellow IOTWReport readers. Thx!
“Burn Baby Burn” Bernie is an unrepentant grifter Marxist Scrooge. Without a snowball’s chance in Hell of ever changing.
99th Squad Leader
He’ll change when he reaches room temp. The only good Commie——.
I’m glad my parents are not around to watch these idiots try and destroy our country.
The Antidote to Marxist Socialism is Biblical Christianity.
Exactly, Bad_Brad.
The operating principal of leftists is to always endorse lavish charitable giving, but only with the money of others.
How stupid do the citizens of Vermont have to be, to have elected this putz to office all these years?
Shame on VT and Dim voters. They are all to blame.
Bernie loves to take people’s wealth by force just for fun, and despises people’s freedom to donate or spend their own money as they please to solve problems. He doesn’t want people fixing problems themselves, he wants to force the attitude that they are helpless, and only the state has the wisdom that can solve problems. He’s upping LBJ’s Great Society to be replaced by the Total Dependency Society. In his opinion LBJ came close to that goal but fell a little short.