The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.
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The mosque’s backers hope to raise a total of $70 million in tax-exempt debt to build the center, according to the New York Times. Tax laws allow such funding for religiously affiliated non-profits if they can prove the facility will benefit the general public and their religious activities are funded separately.
The bonds could be issued through a local development corporation created for this purpose, experts said.
The Islamic center would have to repay the bonds, which likely would be less expensive than taxable debt.
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Let me just say this, then I’ll let it go: proving a facility will “benefit the general public” is rather easy when the opinions of the general public are pointedly dismissed by those who presume to know better than the rabble they purportedly represent.
Insult to injury. And rightfully so. After all, elections have consequences, and they won!
RAAAAACIST!
Now we’ll really start getting our hate on, I guess, since I’ll bet even more people will be against public funding for this project than were against it being built in its present (assumed) location. Whoever is left over will give a pretty good estimate of the percentage of the hardcore progressives.
Our modern despot is so full of his own goodness, so blinded by his own generosity that he cannot see he lights his cigar with the forgotten-man’s dollar. A darkening contrast is wanted, to help him.
See, you can’t JUST complain anymore. These people need visual stimulus. Imagine 200 or so jars of piss with little Mohammed’s inside them showing up at their office. It’s not a protest man, its art in the form of a protest. You fucking square jerks.
You see, I know HUNDREDS of left wingers, and you know what they fear more than ANYTHING? They fear being un-cool. This is why subversion needs to begin. Serious and fun subversion on a constant basis. FOREVER.
Which by the way is why they LURVE muslims in their own little way. It’s because they relate to that desire to be part of the whole. To be of one mind and of singular ignorance. Of course everyone here pretty much knows that. Hell, the more honest of my lefty pals will even admit it. They lurve being a part of “something bigger” than themselves.
Me, I just like being me and being left the hell alone. But now they have grown too powerful and need to be stopped. They are like bacteria that is so successful that it is killing it’s host. Each singular bacteria has no idea what they are doing and don’t care. They are just happy to keep eating.
They haven’t even got started and they’re already behind on their taxes.
http://tinyurl.com/2ea6n8n
I always thought that the ‘leftists as cancer that has metastacised and is killing the host county’ metaphor was accurate.
Too stupid to know what’s good for you, eh?
That’s ok, we’ll let you make up for it by giving you the pleasure of paying for it.
Maybe then you’ll learn something.
So you’re saying we get to use it when it’s complete Mike? I mean, use it in some sense other than as a target for egging?
Imagine 200 or so jars of piss with little Mohammed’s inside them showing up at their office.
That would be cool, RoA, but it would be treated as a hate crime using art, and the FBI would be called in to track down the culprits using DNA mapping.
So use animal piss. Say, from a dog?
Since when does ‘for the benefit of New Yorkers’ mean that it would actually be accessible to New Yorkers?
What, next you’ll want a room at Gracie?
Good point Mike. Oh, did you remember to buy enough hot-dog buns to match the franks? And don’t forget the coleslaw.
Kosher or Halal?
Let’s mix and match and see what happens. I’m getting the sense that youse aren’t exactly Fiorello La Guardia with questions like that though.
I almost hope this happens just to give voters the excuse to vote them all out of office. But they should be doing that anyway.
You see, I know HUNDREDS of left wingers, and you know what they fear more than ANYTHING? They fear being un-cool. This is why subversion needs to begin. Serious and fun subversion on a constant basis. FOREVER.
It drives me crazy that so few people understand that.
So they have been conducting services for the better part of a year, without a certificate, they haven’t paid taxes, how is this project even under consideration, I know rhetorical question
@Jeff S.
Probably would be more tactful to have a blend of dog and pig piss.
Maybe a few statuettes of Mohammed ass raping a little girl included as well. Of course to impress the Polanski element.
@Abe
I am slowly and surely a part of that subversion and have been for many years. Now whether I have been effective is up for grabs. BTW, dig your blog.
demonrats luvs taxcheats (cross ? oh i posted this twice)
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/08/shocker-ground-zero-mosque-developer.html
benefit the general public…
Well.
It’s supposed to have a pool.