Tax payers have been funding our opponents. If DOGE continues, the real political dynamic of the US will emerge. This, not the deficit, is why DOGE matters so much. https://t.co/qS9zxGddJ7
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 14, 2025
Tax payers have been funding our opponents. If DOGE continues, the real political dynamic of the US will emerge. This, not the deficit, is why DOGE matters so much. https://t.co/qS9zxGddJ7
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 14, 2025
DOGE may be our only viable anti-dote to the NGO, short of empowering legislation. That should follow, but I’m probably just whistling in the dark over that one.
As a result, March for Our Lives has had to layoff almost all of its staff.
What? No pro-bono volunteers? How much can it cost to perform synchronized walking for our lives? Or did I misunderstand the wordage because it’s April now?
Surely Soros or Bloomberg will cover the shortfall from their own pockets!
Lil Davey looks as though he needs more fiber in his diet
It’s gotta be an AI-generated pic. So, you know, fake but accurate.
Perfect for them, then
Have to give the Democrats credit for being such great schemers. Not only did they find a way to abuse the system, they abused groups already in the system by subverting their purpose into supporting DNC policies.
Now that they have lost this money machine, they may be thrown into even further disarray.
After all, the best way to convert someone from socialism to conservatism is to force them to feed their family in the open market, instead of being handed a paycheck from the government.
Cue Elmer Fudd singing “Kill the Wabbit…”
Defunding it has always been the key to effectively combatting the left. For a long time, my thought was that the left got most of its money from union dues and the conversion of the fortunes left by dead conservatives into leftist piggy banks via their near-monopoly on the foundation management class – and aided, in many cases, by surviving heirs who didn’t share the politics of the fortune-builders.
These are still leftist cash cows, but what DOGE has uncovered is beyond my wildest previous imaginings. Severing the taxpayer-pocket-to-leftist-NGO pipeline now looks to be the largest and most effective single blow to leftist funding. The fact that DOGE is also downsizing the federal workforce means it will have a secondary effect on funds derived from dues paid to public employee unions.
Still to be done, though, is restoring the pre-1960 prohibition on unionization of government employees – except for first-responders, who do need unions to combat abuse of their members by mostly leftist city administrations.
The matter of “charitable” foundations based on the fortunes of dead conservatives is a trickier matter. Removing part or all of their tax-exempt status is one possible avenue of attack. Another might be a requirement that foundations be age-limited, requiring them to expend all of their assets within an interval of, say 25 – 50 years. This all needs to be a matter of discussion.