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The Business of MADD

By Lawrence Taylor

As I’ve mentioned before, Mothers Against Drunk Driving is a huge, politically powerful prohibitionist organization.  It’s also a very profitable one.  According to the required IRS annual reports posted on its own website, the organization makes about $50 million each year in contributions — about $12 million of which goes to professional telemarketers and "management".  That’s the official report.  But an investigation by a Canadian newspaper into MADD in that country revealed that "most of the high-profile charity’s money is spent on fundraising and administration, leaving only about 19 cents of each donor dollar for charitable works." MADD is now further expanding its profitable prohibitionist horizons...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).