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Michael Novick discusses HR 9495, the “Stop Terror Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act”, which passed the House November 21 with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. Opponents of HR 9495 have called it the “nonprofit-killer” bill, because it would give the Secretary of Treasury the authority to designate any nonprofit as a suspected “Terrorist Supporting Organization” and remove their tax-exempt status unless they convince the Secretary of Treasury that they do not support terrorists. Mother Jones reported, ‘In the bill’s original iteration, it was popular among both Republicans and Democrats, who saw it as an appealing way to police Palestinian rights organizations after protests last year. An earlier version, in April, passed the House easily, with only 11 votes against the bill. It didn’t make it through the Senate … One of those early no votes was Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who said on the House floor [November 21], “… This is a dangerous and an unconstitutional bill that would allow unchecked power to target nonprofit organizations as political enemies and shut them down without due process.”’
This broadcast is excerpted from a slightly longer interview available in video with the Wikiversity article on, “HR 9495, the nonprofit-killer bill, per Michael Novick”, which also supports a moderated discussion of the issue it raises.
Copyright 2024 Michael Novick and Spencer Graves, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 international license.
