weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Wimpy Math Grad Student) (07/23/86)
net.politics has been added and net.consumers has been removed from the newsgroup line. I am directing followups to net.politics only. Mother Jones is an infamous muckraking magazine published monthly by the Foundation for National Progress. FNP is a tax exempt educational organ- ization. The IRS claimed that MJ owed $750,000 in back taxes, which was bargained down to $390,000. Considering that MJ consistently loses about $200,000 a year, this makes little sense. MJ had to spend over $120,000 in legal costs between 1980 and 1983 because of the IRS harassment. It ended late 1983 when the IRS ruled that MJ was indeed nonprofit. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Wimpy Grad Student/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720