RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy — the Richmond-based women’s group that helped erect many of the country’s Confederate monuments — is on its way to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who hasn’t said whether he supports it.
The Democratic-led House of Delegates gave final passage Monday to a bill that would eliminate both a recordation and property tax exemption for the group. A separate, companion measure that reached final passage last week also eliminates those exemptions.
The bills have moved through the legislature with mostly party-line support and relatively little debate. The few individuals who have spoken out against the legislation have called it discriminatory, while supporters argued the tax benefits have amounted to state-sponsored subsidies for Confederate monuments and are out of line with 21st-century values.
“Since Virginia no longer supports the legacy of the Confederacy, we need to reflect that in our legislation,” Democratic Sen. Angelia Williams Graves of Norfolk, the sponsor of the Senate version of the bill, said in a legislative hearing.
Any daughter of the Confederacy is no daughter of the US. Yet they’ll claim to be patriots in the same breath as they worship literal traitors who betrayed the country for the worst possible cause.
Back in the good ol’ days these people are always talking about, traitors got hanged.
Nah, no all. Some got shot at dawn.
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I like telling people who consider the Confederacy to be their heritage that the CSA lasted 5 years and the Obama presidency lasted 8 years, making the Obama presidency a larger part of their heritage.
Daughters of a treasonous, loser enemy, slaver nation, want special treatment from the country they went to war with?
Yes, yes they do. And they consider it just.
Which just shows how menatally deranged those people are.
In a way, they have long been benefiting from a type of reparation that they rail against blacks getting. Except the blacks have much more solid moral case for said reparations.
Tax breaks for being traitors?
It’s gotten to the point where anyone in the South who says shit like “appreciates the complicated history of this organization” is just a giant racist.
The amount of inbreeding with other “historic” organizations like the Daughters of the American Revolution means that most of these orgs have well-documented ties to the KKK and other white supremacist causes. It’s enough to put most folks off supporting anyone who claims some historic tie.
Take for example this fucking loser and make sure you mark all of her orgs as “all about when white people could own people.”
YAY, now do churches!!!
I have little faith in youngkin to make correct choices
Sherman smiling from Heaven rn
