VICTORY UPDATE: Congress voted to outlaw tax breaks for trophy hunting! No longer will hunters be allowed to shoot wild and rare game in order to get a tax break through the "charitable" donations of their kill. Thanks from Care2 and the Humane Society of the United States for helping to make this wildlife victory possible!
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Did you know trophy hunters can write off their canned hunts and
big game safaris at taxpayers' expense?
As reported in a front-page expose in The Washington Post, wealthy hunters have been killing a few "extra" animals, donating the trophies to pseudo-museums, inflating the value of these trophies and then taking a huge tax deduction for their "charitable" contribution (to "museums" that are sometimes in someone's basement or even abandoned railroad cars).
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) has tightened up the part of the current tax code that deals with charitable donations to solve this problem. His changes are part of a massive "tax reconciliation" bill, which passed the Senate November 18. The House passed a different version of the tax bill December 8 that did not address the taxidermy tax scam. Urge your U.S. Senators and Representative to make sure the final bill ends this tax scam immediately!
We signed the “Stop tax breaks for shooting animals in fenced enclosures” petition!
# 60,911:
8:28 am PDT, Aug 14,Lori L. Gray, California
Please stop tax breaks for shooting animals in fenced enclosures.
# 60,910:
5:11 pm PDT, Aug 11,Julia Lewis-Osborne, Wisconsin
This is a hobby for the primitives who have never evolved into humans
# 60,909:
3:35 am PDT, Aug 8,Diane M. Loran, Washington
# 60,908:
2:58 pm PDT, Aug 7,Carmen Zerain, Bolivia
# 60,907:
10:31 am PDT, Aug 6,Kathy Monteleone, Ohio
This is just so wrong!!
# 60,906:
10:25 am PDT, Aug 5,Leanne Greene, Texas
Think.
# 60,905:
7:58 pm PDT, Aug 4,Eric Serxner, New York
# 60,904:
12:50 pm PDT, Aug 4,Jana Ziem, Germany
# 60,903:
12:49 pm PDT, Aug 4,Irmgard Grever, Germany
# 60,902:
12:46 pm PDT, Aug 4,Karl-Heinz Fechner, Germany
# 60,901:
12:45 pm PDT, Aug 4,Bianca Fechner, Germany
# 60,900:
12:43 pm PDT, Aug 4,Ingrid Fechner, Germany
# 60,899:
9:28 am PDT, Aug 3,Karen Heath, Kansas
# 60,898:
3:22 pm PDT, Jul 31,Nancy Hey, Virginia
shooting helpless animals is cruel and totally unjustified.
# 60,897:
10:04 pm PDT, Jul 27,Sundra R Allen, Utah
# 60,896:
2:10 pm PDT, Jul 24,Scott Carter, Alabama
# 60,895:
5:32 pm PDT, Jul 21,Samantha Hinson, North Carolina
# 60,894:
3:17 pm PDT, Jul 16,Christofer Stanton, Alabama
# 60,893:
3:29 pm PDT, Jul 14,Margaret Goederer, Ohio
# 60,892:
10:53 am PDT, Jul 14,Ian Gonzales, Washington
# 60,891:
4:18 am PDT, Jul 14,Kagurazaka NAHE, Dominican Republic
# 60,890:
2:40 pm PDT, Jul 13,Iris Straube, Germany
# 60,889:
9:26 am PDT, Jul 12,Dassi McCurdy, Oregon
# 60,888:
12:44 am PDT, Jul 12,Rohit Mahajan, Michigan
# 60,887:
1:19 pm PDT, Jul 9,Name not displayed, California
# 60,886:
9:35 pm PDT, Jul 8,Amy Herron, Florida
# 60,885:
8:52 am PDT, Jul 7,Name not displayed, Tennessee
# 60,884:
8:34 pm PDT, Jul 5,Colleen Romanelli, Illinois
# 60,883:
4:56 pm PDT, Jul 5,Kevin Kivett, Kansas
# 60,882:
10:40 am PDT, Jul 5,Terry Lee, Michigan
# 60,881:
9:27 am PDT, Jul 5,Jennifer Faust, Maryland
# 60,880:
6:45 pm PDT, Jul 3,Robin Kivett, Kansas
This is a disgusting, cruel, evil way to murder any living creature, please help ban this practice.
# 60,879:
8:45 am PDT, Jul 2,Linda Thorburn, United Kingdom
# 60,878:
9:52 pm PDT, Jun 29,Michaella Mintcheff, Hawaii
# 60,877:
11:00 am PDT, Jun 27,Brenda Schenk, Washington
There is no excuse for neglect & abuse of animals. They bleed, suffer, and die just like humans do. Why should they suffer? What have they done to deserve such horrific, and cruel abuse? There's just no excuse. Their blood is on the hands of those who kill them, those who profit from the killings, and those who do nothing to stop it from continuing.
# 60,876:
1:48 pm PDT, Jun 26,Monica Legg, Michigan
# 60,875:
12:05 pm PDT, Jun 25,Geoff Martin, Massachusetts
What can you say about this. It's appalling that it's done at all. To be given a cash incentive is to add greed to cruelty.
# 60,874:
8:40 pm PDT, Jun 24,Hector Seda, New Jersey
# 60,873:
12:55 pm PDT, Jun 24,Jelynda Vanover, Ohio
# 60,872:
10:47 pm PDT, Jun 23,Steven Rhoads, Tennessee
# 60,871:
9:24 am PDT, Jun 22,Name not displayed, Canada
I truly am against the tax write off for this type of hunt, although I see NO differnce in killing a deer in a fence or cattle, chicken, etc on farms. Even the bible taught the lamb to be slaughtered was to be a 'pet'. In the home for 10 days before slaughtered for passover. (This was G-ds law, not manmade)
# 60,870:
4:16 am PDT, Jun 22,Erika Erhardt, Germany
# 60,869:
6:18 pm PDT, Jun 19,Aisha Rafeeq, California
STOP
# 60,868:
4:11 pm PDT, Jun 19,Alexandria Jones, Texas
I don't understand how people can be so evil. I don't know what's wrong with you.
# 60,867:
2:05 pm PDT, Jun 19,Name not displayed, Texas
# 60,866:
1:39 pm PDT, Jun 19,Lynne Lewis, Texas
First, why should my tax dollars go to support your recreation and second, if you can't find something truely free to hunt, you must be a pitifully poor hunter. So stop it!
# 60,865:
3:01 pm PDT, Jun 17,Charlene Van Meter, Maryland
# 60,864:
7:18 pm PDT, Jun 16,Name not displayed, Washington
# 60,863:
7:07 pm PDT, Jun 16,Élizabeth Bertrand, Canada
Stop shooting innocent animals and let them live freely: all thos who can should be vegans
# 60,862:
4:42 pm PDT, Jun 16,Name not displayed, Michigan
# 60,861:
6:30 pm PDT, Jun 12,Leila Jalili, California
how ridiculous can this country get? We are the laughing stock of the entire world and this fuel just adds to the fire.
# 60,860:
6:25 pm PDT, Jun 12,Peter Bernauer, Canada
# 60,859:
12:36 pm PDT, Jun 12,Chuck Terzian, Florida
Please do all you can to stop this ridiculous practice.
# 60,858:
7:43 am PDT, Jun 12,Karen Quillen, Maryland
Please stop this digusting practice at once!!!!!!!!
# 60,857:
6:43 pm PDT, Jun 11,Jerri Love, Ohio
Oh yeah, makes alot of sense to give a tax break to someone who hunts and shoots an Animal in an enclosed area. Thats pathetic, cruel, and ignorant!!! How about the tax breaks to the people who need it and deserve it? The Little People who work their Butts off to keep The Country Going, The Blue Collar Worker! And those Who RISK THERE LIVES FOR OTHERS, AND KEEP US SAFE!!! No, you give tax breaks to the big pansies that have to have the animals they hunt inside a fence!!! Takes a big person to do that!! A big dumb--- person!
# 60,856:
6:07 pm PDT, Jun 11,Patricia Prosje, Florida
I'm disgusted!!!!!! Who allows this????
# 60,855:
5:12 pm PDT, Jun 11,Name not displayed, California
