{"id":1664,"date":"2003-08-14T05:28:51","date_gmt":"2003-08-14T12:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/joke-candidate-huffington-pays-no-taxes\/"},"modified":"2003-08-14T05:28:51","modified_gmt":"2003-08-14T12:28:51","slug":"joke-candidate-huffington-pays-no-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/14\/joke-candidate-huffington-pays-no-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke candidate Huffington pays no taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe LA Times has a yummy liittle story on cult member Arianna Huffington’s tax returns,<\/a> including some interesting charitable donations:<\/p>\n

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…They also include payments of $6,675 to the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness and a related foundation.<\/p>\n

The church, founded by John-Roger, describes itself as designed to “teach Soul Transcendence, which is becoming aware of yourself as a Soul and as one with God, not as a theory but as a living reality.”<\/p>\n

“I’ve been involved with John-Roger and the church for many years now,” Huffington said. “He’s a good friend, and I’ve gotten a lot of value from the work he has done.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those of us who pay taxes in California are supporting Arianna’s guru through her tax breaks. Are we enlightened yet?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The main reason Arianna doesn’t pay income tax is that most of her income is child support, which is tax-exempt to the recipient. I don’t have the figures on her award, but it’s probably in the neighborhood of $20,000 per month.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The LA Times has a yummy liittle story on cult member Arianna Huffington’s tax returns, including some interesting charitable donations: …They also include payments of $6,675 to the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness and a related foundation. The church, founded by John-Roger, describes itself as designed to “teach Soul Transcendence, which is … Continue reading “Joke candidate Huffington pays no taxes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-qQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}