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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Our reigning frameworks for taxation and securities don’t enable the kinds of association required. It is telling that the art of association is not better represented in a culture that has, for generations, constrained that art. The reason we don’t have large-scale mutualism popping off everywhere is not that people don’t want it.

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The Taxman Cometh, Part 1: The Downside of the 2017 Tax Bill for Nonprofits

The Agitator

Specifically, the Joint Committee of Taxation estimates that 28 million fewer people will take a charitable deduction, falling from about 30% of taxpayers to about 5% of taxpayers. Third, we are pushing for a culture of philanthropy. If the standard deduction is bigger than itemized, fewer people will itemize.

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Civil Society Undermined by Conflict, Disinformation, and Repression of Protest

NonProfit Quarterly

Areas for advocacy could include progressive taxation, such as windfall and wealth taxes, social protection floors, universal basic incomes, union recognition and more effective business regulation” (33).

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

But when they write, “The inequality capitalism creates can be readily remedied through progressive taxation” (400) on the very same page where they discuss Thomas Piketty , it would appear that perhaps they haven’t read Piketty carefully enough. Both Musgrave and Quart are more introspective in their analysis.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

“With policy changes in taxation and increased regulation governing corporations and philanthropic wealth, our economy became more regenerative, and everyone had the resources they needed to thrive.” 8 “In the late ’20s, a sweeping wealth tax endowed a federal Reparations Commission.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These range from arts, cultural and heritage activities, financial guidance, physical activity, and nature experiences, each of which fosters social connections. England’s National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) estimates that one-fifth of GP appointment time is spent on nonmedical problems.

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Taxes, Race, and Justice: Confronting “Quiet Violence” Against Black Americans

NonProfit Quarterly

This series explores how the taxation systems quiet violence enacted against Black Americans leads not only to financial inequality but also to stolen legacies, futures, peace, and healthand presents solutions for equitable change. In US history, tax policies have served as a primary tool for cementing power for wealthy White elites.