Yes, ACORN Does Cheat on Its Taxes

Yes, ACORN Does Cheat on Its Taxes: "

Kudos to the Pelican Institute for excellent research, and to
Deroy Murdock and our own Quin Hillyer for resurrecting the issue
of ACORN's tax cheating.

I had this story almost a year ago.

The piece, Lien on
Me, ran in TAS online on Oct. 28, 2008.

It begins:

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN) and its affiliates are content to impose crippling
big-government laws, regulations, and taxes on Americans, but
when called upon to obey those same rules, ACORN's network of
scofflaws and deadbeats simply refuses to comply.

The most egregious example is the fact that more than 200
federal, state, and local tax liens adding up to more than $3
million have been filed against the ACORN network since 1989.
All of these liens, which are only issued by creditor tax
agencies after a tax debt has become seriously delinquent, are
associated with ACORN's 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue address in
New Orleans, Louisiana. That address is the official
headquarters for nearly 300 ACORN-affiliated groups.

The most recent lien ($23,383) was filed by the IRS against an
ACORN affiliate, American Workers Associates Inc., on Sept. 9.
The largest lien ($547,312) was filed against ACORN itself by
the IRS on March 10. [...]

Murdock references a $548,000 lien. If in haste he rounded up, it
might be the $547,312 lien I discovered.

ACORN also
sold out its poor constituents in Brooklyn in exchange for a
cash bailout from Forest City Ratner, a wealthy developer trying
to build the Atlantic Yards project.

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