Abstract
A legislative reexamination of the scheme of lobbying restraints imposed on section 501(c)(3) organizations is warranted. Equality of lobbying opportunity should be the goal. Deviations from this goal should be justified only by public concerns of the highest order. The strands of public policy in support of the present legislative configuration may not be of this caliber. This determination would suggest that business and veterans' group lobbies should be restricted, or the section 501(c)(3) organizations unshackled. The latter event probably will not unduly compromise the governmental and public policy interests maintained by the present scheme of lobbying restraints. If the lobbying restraints are abandoned, we must be prepared for an increase in the number of tax exempt organizations that will pursue their tax subsidized objectives through the legislative process. Although that may be objectionable to some, absent complete lobbying neutrality, it may be the proper response to a legislative scheme that has continued to grant lobbying privileges to a few.
Recommended Citation
Robinson, Gregory E.
(1984)
"Charitable Lobbying Restraints and Tax Exempt
Organizations: Old Problems, New Directions?,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1984:
No.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1984/iss2/4