Look at this paymant plan for Media Research Center!

[izzybeans]

This is absolutely bizarre. newmedia right-wing cult. Steal from the poor to give to the ideology. F'd up. Really F'd up.

t-planning.org/

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[Zuni]

1. This is outrageous!

What kind of asshat would sell their house to Brent Bozell? For what? It is not like there aren't enough RW media watchdogs out there

[izzybeans]

2. It sounds borderline illegal. I wish it were, at least.

There is at least one testimonial on the website. "I bequethed a large gift" or some such thing.

[Zuni]

3. I saw some deluded old woman did

That reminds me of one of my grandmothers, who when she got old and sick started sending a whole bunch of money to Televangelists.

My dad had to stop her so she wouldn't throw away money that she needed for medical care

[izzybeans]

4. It's really sad. What's the legal recourse for the duped when this

leads to financial ruin? I do not know of any.

[punpirate]

5. Saying to the rich...

... "you're a lot richer now because we've been pounding the right-wing conservative message into the press and into Congress, so give up some of those expensive knick-knacks that you bought just because you thought they'd give you some class."

[izzybeans]

6. But this was a recommended planned payment plan for those with no cash

assets to expend. The rich typically don't get PT Barnumed into low brow investment schemes.

[punpirate]

8. The truly rich...

... don't use cash.... :)

What they seem to be proposing are not investments, but tax deferral/credit schemes tied to things which would be subject to inheritance taxes, and in that sense, this sounds as if it's being pitched to the elderly, moderately wealthy winger whose wealth is tied up in holdings, not in cash.

I admit that the pitch may be geared to the slightly less well-heeled, but the methods suggested sound more like something available only to the relatively wealthy. The bottom-end Bob Boudalangs don't have spare houses to hand over to the MRC.

Still, you're right about the weirdness of it, but I suspect, if you look at the fund-raising efforts of other such right-wing groups, you'll find them all remarkably similar in tone, if not in detail.

Cheers.

[izzybeans]

10. point taken n/t

[RobertSeattle]

7. Looks like they've had just one donor "Betty Wolfe"

t-planning.org/donors.php

Kool-aid!

[otohara]

9. This Is Quite Common

Hospitals, universities, NPR - and it's quite legal.

[izzybeans]

11. still disgusting no matter who does it.

I was mostly concerned about the framing of this for low income people.

[otohara]

12. Yes, But It's Rich

folks who mainly take advantage of this loophole... for tax purposes.