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Every year most Americans work hard, play by the rules, and diligently pay their taxes. The same can’t be said of the dark-money billionaires funding the left’s socialist crusade.
In February, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to investigate foreign actors who take advantage of the United States’ tax-exempt status — typically reserved for nonprofit organizations — to spread discord, interfere in our elections, and peddle foreign government propaganda. The findings were alarming.
The hearing revealed “prolific” efforts to game our country’s tax code — from loopholes that excuse political organizations from disclosing donors to social media campaigns meant to fuel protests manufactured by foreign-connected organizations. In at least one instance, a nonprofit lent its tax-exempt status to an entity designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the Biden administration.
A recent Fox News expose further pulled back the curtain on these under-the-table dealings. The series details a sprawling network of nonprofits, shell companies and media holdings funded by tech mogul Neville Roy Singham to create a “propaganda machine” to advance Chinese Communist Party interests and Marxists ideals.
The network funneled $591 million through “concentric rings of an ideological pipeline” across five continents to spread pro-China propaganda. Singham — a self-described Maoist and “socialist benefactor” — and his organizations directly contributed over $400 million to fuel anti-American disinformation.
The ultra-wealthy — names like George Soros and John Arnold — have long pumped money into Washington to advance the left’s agenda. But these latest efforts take dark money to a new level, and, worse, they do so by cheating the tax system. They are stealing from honest Americans to attack the pillars of our democracy and foist socialist doctrine on a reluctant public.
Americans have a right to protest, organize and advocate for their beliefs. But they deserve to know who’s paying for it.
Singham’s American smear campaign isn’t only dishonest; it borders on illegal. He and his network routed money through shell companies and donor-advised funds to bankroll groups like the People’s Forum and CodePink — organizations the U.S. State Department identifies as Chinese Communist Party proxies that “denigrate the United States and whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes.”
No one would allow a business or individual to shield money from the government — much less to then use it to champion our adversaries — under the guise of a nonprofit or shell organization. How much worse when it’s a person who admittedly loathes America and has no accountability.
Sadly, this is hardly a novel problem. The Soros network and Arnold Foundation have poured and continue to pour money into super PACs and 501c4s that promote Democrats’ liberal agenda. Their causes read like the far left’s dream policy platform: defunding the police, open borders, gun control and, of course, a slew of socialist candidates.
These shadowy characters’ playbook isn’t complicated. Nonprofits’ and super PACs’ nondisclosure status allows them to effectively launder money. The rich and foreign countries use them as vehicles to advance their political goals, and no one is the wiser.
As one witness testified during February’s Congressional hearing, “It’s unfortunately all too common that foreign billionaires and foreign charities seem to have their thumb on the scale of American politics.”
The blind spot in our tax system is even more troubling set against the backdrop of foreign meddling. Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to political campaigns. But these same individuals and organizations can shirk the rules by channeling money through nonprofit organizations. It’s a loophole for them to destabilize our country while leaving no fingerprints behind. And they are using it.
A report this year found that just six foreign entities alone directed more than $2.65 billion into American politics. Sadly, even supposedly well-respected institutions are complicit. For example, the University of Pennsylvania received over $15 million in anonymous Chinese donations in 2018, the same year it started the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
Our system of government was designed to provide transparency. The Founders knew that secretive dealings undermine the power of the people. George Washington cautioned that “foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government” — which might well be said of crooked internal influence too.
This glaring hole in our tax code must be addressed. But it also points to a larger truth: The rise of socialism in America isn’t organic. It’s well funded, organized and often orchestrated by foreign interests. Transparency is the best remedy, and Americans should demand it.
Photo credit: David Shankbone at Wikimedia Commons.
It comes down to vote for you, vote or your family, vote for your country. Or don’t vote and put all three at risk.
Americans won’t demand a thing. They are oblivious and brain washed. Frogs in the proverbial pot of water on the stove that’s slowly boiling. Spoiled, clueless, and feeling dangerously onmipotent.
Precisely.
Actually, we know who is funding the socialist movement here. It’s the Soros’ Orgs and with more than ample help from Neville Singham, you know, the rat who ran to his mansion in Shanghai as soon as it became slightly warm here. A huge, but really huge problem we have is that the DOJ announced three different times these last ten months or so that they were investigating the funding sources. Once mid last summer, a second time last late summer or fall, and a third time last December. It is obvious insurrection, even we without experience in trial law understand what we see and hear. Yet, the DOJ behaves as it were the Demorats who are in control. President Trump should have canned Ms. Bondi her first two weeks when she clearly bungled the Epstein matter. But no, he left her in place, warming her DOJ chair, now it appears to late for the DOJ to do much of any significance. With only some seven months before possibly the Demorats take over the House and possibly the Senate too, we have heard multiple times from various voices in the control structure of the Dem Party. From Susan Rice two weeks ago to the Dem dork yesterday, it is as clear as the “deer in the headlights look” of Bondi what will happen by next year at this time. It is so darn frustrating.
Every single member of Biden’s cabinet should be in prison by now for treason, instead we get nothing.
Some folks like to claim that our country will die not by conquest but suicide. Maybe. But that’s not what’s happening here. Even if the COVID Plague were not an act of war, as I believe it was, Communist China is attacking our country via its stalwart ally the American Democrat Party. Nearly every Democrat in Congress is complicit.
COVID from China, regardless of its epidemiological pathway, cost us millions of lives, and China’s fentanyl pump is costing us millions more. And this is to say nothing of the mass of Chinese military age men flooding across our borders both legally and illegally.
The American people should be aroused and incensed by this lawless foreign meddling. This ought to be enough to at least get them to the polls and run the beggars out of town and country.
If only someone would tell them.
Import of chinese made medicines and no country of origin on the package is tantamount to slow motion poisoning of Americans in due time…. Walmart OTC meds have no country of origin labelling…
As I have been saying for the last 40 years, only individuals can contribute to elections. That is individuals, not corporations, not unions, not NCOs, just individuals.
Yes, only individuals who are citizens are allowed to vote. However, that assumes they are prepared to vote, and that means they are knowledgeable of the candidates and know what they stand for. In many cases, that’s not correct. They follow the lead of corporations, unions, and NGOs. In particular NGOs who are part of the movement to go Socialist. Being prepared is a must, but it’s not happening..
Neville Roy Singham, George Soros and John Arnold….a trifecta of sick leftist pukes who are trying to undermine this country. Thank God we have Trump for now. I hope we still have Maga after Trump’s term is done.
Singham’s US headquarters for his Chinese Communist operation is at 320 West 37th Street, Manhattan, NYC., called The People’s Forum. On “stolen land”.
I’ll wager 2/3rds of persons describing themselves as “Democratic Socialists” could not describe what that is. They would “er… ah…” then mumble something like “Democracy good, Oligarchy bad, Dictators bad …”, then warn us, “We’re losing our Democracy…!” (Oh, God! I hope so! Our Founders HATED Democracy, and were determined we would never have one!) Perhaps “Republican Socialists” aren’t far behind, but Democrats are undeniably EVIL! You CANNOT be a “Born Again Christian”, assured of Eternity in Heaven with Christ, and vote “Democrat”. For the reason you cannot offer your unborn to Moloch – “Planned Parenthood (Abortionhood)”, or VOTE for any politician who does, and be Christian.