<story><title>Reining in America&apos;s $3.3T tax-exempt economy</title><url>https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/501c3-nonprofit-organization-tax-exempt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aurornis</author><text>&amp;gt; More than half (55 percent) of all the income generated by 501(c)(3) organizations comes from tax-exempt hospitals and health-care plans.&lt;p&gt;The median operating margins for hospitals is around 0% or some times negative. Injecting more costs into the system is only going to push prices further upward.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The majority of tax-exempt organizations today are business-like in form and function, including credit unions, hospitals, utilities, insurance companies, universities, professional athletic associations, golf clubs, and consulting firms, to name a few.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m completely on board with clamping down on tax exempt status for a lot of these other businesses, though. Credit Unions are nice, but they&amp;#x27;re still just banks. Insurance companies are obviously businesses. Athletic associations, golf clubs, consulting firms -- What is even going on that allowed these to be nonprofits?</text></comment>
<story><title>Reining in America&apos;s $3.3T tax-exempt economy</title><url>https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/501c3-nonprofit-organization-tax-exempt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>francisofascii</author><text>Setting more appropriate land taxes would be a good start, which is much easier then trying to figure out how to tax income.  The harder part is reducing the tax liability based on the &amp;quot;public good&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;how benevolent&amp;quot; the organization is. Hard but not impossible. For example, a private golf club would pay higher taxes than a public golf course.  Or a church that allows anyone in or has tons of community outreach to the neighborhood pays less or no taxes vs a church that has tons of requirements or hoops to jump through.</text></comment>