Hard to believe this is legal. Taxpayers effectively get to tell the state to pay a crisis pregnancy center an amount of money equal to their own tax liability? - ThreadSky

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nickfleisher.bsky.social • 13 hours ago

Hard to believe this is legal. Taxpayers effectively get to tell the state to pay a crisis pregnancy center an amount of money equal to their own tax liability?

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A bill proposed by Republican lawmakers in Missouri would allow residents to pay no state income tax if they donate to pregnancy resource centers, ProPublica reports: www.propublica.org/a...

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spinny.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Including crisis pregnancy centers with only one member of staff, running out of their house, which I'm certain will be growing magnificently as soon as this passes.

kakistocracy-usa.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Hard to believe Missouri legislators that vote for this would feel safe in public.

ruston.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I guess it’s a way around the salt cap too, you just itemize and take that as a donation deduction coincidentally equal to what your state taxes would have been

ifight4them.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Seems like this would have a hard time passing through their state's constitution. At least one would hope.

thefred.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It's not.

smallbusiness.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Who runs these centers and how closely are they related to the legislators?

maisiepubblechook.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I live in Missouri. "Legal" is kinda ambiguous everywhere now, but I'll bet if this passes there will be some amazing corruption stories coming out of crisis pregnancy centers. And there will be a CPC on every block in the state.

maisiepubblechook.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This idea sort of goes against the governor's determination to abolish personal and corporate income taxes, though. You'd think a 20-year trifecta would allow the MO GOP to coordinate on these things.

marcyiam.bsky.social•9 hours ago

This sounds like a good way to bankrupt the state.

shabbydude.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Missouri looking at the Brownback experiment like "hold my beer."

nuceguyfromgtown.bsky.social•11 hours ago

That makes zero sense

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