In Pot, Meet Kettle, I wrote:
Project 21 and The National Center for Public Policy Research are both 501(c)(3) organizations. Project 21 comes under the National Center for Public Policy Research. As such, they don't pay D.C. taxes. The D.C. government regularly complains to congress that the high number of 501(c)(3) organizations based in the District, HURTS the District because of the lack of taxes they pay.
Actually, speaking as one who knows, the National Center for Public Policy Research has opposed spending public money on the stadium and also spoken out in defense of the businesses that were forced to close against their will do DC could take the land they were on to build the stadium. Your tax knowledge is a little off, too. Groups like NCPPR/Project 21 don't get a property tax exemption in DC (although they would if they were located in many other places in the U.S.) DC does not allow the property tax exemption to apply to non-profits that do public policy work.
So, I am corrected about the tax situation of the National Center for Public Policy Research.
But, I also wrote:
Next, again, Project 21 has not previously touched upon D.C. spending tax payer money on the stadium nor the negative impact on poor people in the area who will be displaced in the same manner that the complex will displace poor people.
After reviewing the Project 21 website, again, I still see no Project 21 commentary about D.C. spending money on the baseball stadium. There is NCPRS statements on it, but none by Project 21. And, I'll note that the larger organization as well as Project 21 have commented, separately, on other topics.
So, my baseball stadium comment stands as being accurate.
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