And thank you to our witnesses for being here today and taking valuable time out of your lives to come here and talk to us about this very important issue. Tax advantages have allowed nonprofits to underwrite coordinated campaigns, politicize the courts and impose costs on defendants without direct accountability. Just as nonprofit tax exemptions can directly incentivize lawfare for profit third party litigation funders, preferential tax treatment turns lawsuits into tax advantaged asset class leading to predatory and frivolous lawsuits that overburden the courts and raise prices. (00:07–00:16)
CLAIM
Asserts that tax advantages enable nonprofits to influence legal and political systems without accountability.
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