[OT] Tax Cuts for Canned Hunting!

It's one thing to allow the point-blank shooting of defenseless animals in
fenced enclosures, but it's quite another to get a tax cut for doing so.

As reported in a front-page exposé in The Washington Post, wealthy hunters
have been killing a few "extra" animals, donating the trophies to
pseudo-museums, inflating the value of these trophies and then taking a huge
tax deduction for their "charitable" contribution. These so-called museums
have sometimes been in someone's basement or even abandoned railroad cars.
Click here to help stop this scandal: http://go.care2.com/e/H.b/eX/BgE_

The scam is so blatant it's simply shocking; tax deductions are engineered
by questionable trophy appraisers who advertise with slogans like "Hunt For
Free," "Hunting in a Tight Money Economy," and "7 Secrets of Tax Deductible
Hunting."

Fortunately, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) has
tightened up the part of the current tax code that deals with charitable
donations to solve this problem.

His changes are part of a massive "tax reconciliation" bill, which passed
the Senate November 18. The House passed a different version of the tax bill
December 8 that did not address the taxidermy tax scam. Now, the bill must
be reconciled, so urge Congress to make sure the final bill ends this tax
scam. Sign this petition: http://go.care2.com/e/H.b/eX/BgE_

Pat wrote:
It's one thing to allow the point-blank shooting of defenseless animals in
fenced enclosures, but it's quite another to get a tax cut for doing so.

As reported in a front-page exposé in The Washington Post, wealthy hunters
have been killing a few "extra" animals, donating the trophies to
pseudo-museums, inflating the value of these trophies and then taking a huge
tax deduction for their "charitable" contribution. These so-called museums
have sometimes been in someone's basement or even abandoned railroad cars.
Click here to help stop this scandal: http://go.care2.com/e/H.b/eX/BgE_

The scam is so blatant it's simply shocking; tax deductions are engineered
by questionable trophy appraisers who advertise with slogans like "Hunt For
Free," "Hunting in a Tight Money Economy," and "7 Secrets of Tax Deductible
Hunting."

Fortunately, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) has
tightened up the part of the current tax code that deals with charitable
donations to solve this problem.

His changes are part of a massive "tax reconciliation" bill, which passed
the Senate November 18. The House passed a different version of the tax bill
December 8 that did not address the taxidermy tax scam. Now, the bill must
be reconciled, so urge Congress to make sure the final bill ends this tax
scam. Sign this petition: http://go.care2.com/e/H.b/eX/BgE_

Grrr. Just Grrr. Thanks for posting the petition. I don't know whether
it'll help ornot, but it won't hurt.
I hate hunting. *Hate* it. I used to not mind so bad the bird-hunters
but now I've gone all soft about them too. Quail season is open here. I
set up a quail refuge out by the pond, there is a huge brush pile there
now, and I take them a coffee-can full of "chicken scratch" every day.
I now have a *huge* covey there now. Hunters are all over the place,
but they can't touch "my" quail! Ha.

Sherry