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Conservation Easements As A Tool For Nature Protection, William Snape
Conservation Easements As A Tool For Nature Protection, William Snape
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Fixing The Johnson Amendment Without Totally Destroying It, Benjamin Leff
Fixing The Johnson Amendment Without Totally Destroying It, Benjamin Leff
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The so-called Johnson Amendment is that portion of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that prohibits charities from "intervening" in electoral campaigns. The intervention has long been understood to include both contributing charitable funds to campaign coffers and communicating the charity's views about candidates' qualifications for office. The breadth of the Johnson Amendment potentially brings two important values into conflict: the government's interest in preventing tax-deductible contributions to be used for electoral purposes (called "nonsubvention") and the speech rights or interest of charities.
For many years, the IRS has taken the position that the Johnson Amendment's prohibition on electoral …
Reclaiming Place-Based Development Incentive, Ezra Rosser
Reclaiming Place-Based Development Incentive, Ezra Rosser
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Professor Michelle Layser's forthcoming article is an attack on the current form of place-based tax incentive programs. Layser argues that while rhetorically such programs are said to help the poor, by design they support gentrification in ways that harm the poor. The article ends with a call to reform place-based incentive programs so that the poor in selected areas actually benefit.
Eitc For All: A Universal Basic Income Compromise Proposal, Benjamin Leff
Eitc For All: A Universal Basic Income Compromise Proposal, Benjamin Leff
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Universal Basic Income ("UBI") is a concept that has recently begun to enter the popular political consciousness in the United States. It is defined as "a regular cash income paid to all, on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement." It is invoked for a wide variety of political and social purposes, but is almost always presented as radically different from existing governmental welfare and transfer systems. Once a UBI is disaggregated into discrete policy components, it is possible to imagine to what degree existing programs share the benefits (and detriments) of a UBI to a greater or …