Taxes? We don't pay no stinkin' taxes! - Granite Grok

Taxes? We don’t pay no stinkin’ taxes!

Taxes? We don't pay no stinkin taxes!
Taxes? We don’t pay no stinkin taxes!

Peggy Gilmour and I were both graduated from college in 1973 (it only took me three years).  She went on for a graduate degree in nursing and I went o nto the family coal business and then some.  Though Ms. Gilmour dropped off the radar screen for a period of time – at least according to the free bits at LinkedIn – at some point in our respective careers, we were both CEOs.  As such, I would like to think that each of us had a passing understanding of state and federal tax codes and the implication of same on our respective businesses; truth be told, it did not take a rocket scientist to understand that the short version is – they either paid taxes on the income they earned or they were exempt from paying taxes on the income they earned.

So when Ms. Gilmour stated her ‘vehement opposition’ to businesses who actually made enough money to have some left over after expenses to be able to reduce the taxes the state would loot from those businesses by donating some of their profit to give disadvantaged children an opportunity at a better education, and targeted the organizations created to award that donated profit in the form of scholarships, saying: ‘It allows private, non-profit corporations to determine where public education dollars are spent’,  I was mightily confused. Between the New Hampshire Education Association – a 501 (c)(6) business league – and the American Federation of Teachers – a 501 (c)(5) labor organization – these two private, non-profit corporations represent more than 250 individual collective bargaining agreements that permit “private, non-profit corporations to determine where public education dollars.”What am I missing here?  Has Ms. Gilmour finally come over to the right-to-work camp that would eliminate collective bargaining’s stranglehold on public education or does she just not like anyone trying to horn in on their action?

Watch this space….Ms. Gilmour’s happy band of private, non-profit corporation roll call of donors coming up soon.

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