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...agency giving Scientology the most grief is the IRS, whose officials have implied that Hubbard's successors may be looting the church's coffers. Since 1988, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the revocation of the cult's tax-exempt status, a massive IRS probe of church centers across the country has been under way. An IRS agent, Marcus Owens, has estimated that thousands of IRS employees have been involved. Another agent, in an internal IRS memorandum, spoke hopefully of the "ultimate disintegration" of the church. A small but helpful beacon shone last June when a federal appeals court ruled...
...Internal Revenue Service ruling in 1967 stripped Scientology's mother church of its tax-exempt status. A federal court ruled in 1971 that Hubbard's medical claims were bogus and that E-meter auditing could no longer be called a scientific treatment. Hubbard responded by going fully religious, seeking First Amendment protection for Scientology's strange rites. His counselors started sporting clerical collars. Chapels were built, franchises became "missions," fees became "fixed donations," and Hubbard's comic-book cosmology became "sacred scriptures...
...that a recent vote on a $15 billion supplemental appropriation, ostensibly to pay for the gulf war, passed overwhelmingly (92-8 in the Senate, 379-11 in the House). The appropriation was conveniently placed "off budget," meaning that it is exempt from a requirement that any new spending must be balanced by cuts elsewhere. It includes hundreds of millions for weapons that had been targeted for either budgetary death or a fate close to it before the war, and will add $2.9 billion to a deficit estimated at $308 billion for the current fiscal year. Some examples...
...true that women are "responsible for making themselves properly understood," as Morgan claims, but this does NOT exempt men from making sure they understand. Women cannot protect themselves from rape as easily as men can protect themselves from rape charges. That's what being a victim means...
...What it has done is it has knocked two dozen private institutions out of tax-exempt financing," says Nixon, whose chief areas of concern for Harvard are taxation and student aid. Harvard is "out of the market" and "significantly" over the cap, Nixon adds...