Hollister resident Shannon Maguire hopes to raise a pig for the San Benito County Fair that will cash in at $70,000, a sum that could pay several years of college tuition.
The recent decade has seen a tsunami of growth of U.S. nonprofit organizations many of them sheltering enormous revenue and assets under the tax-free umbrella. Some are also directly or indirectly in competition with private enterprise, which has to shoulder more of the remaining tax burden on an unlevel playing field. Additionally, nonprofits have increasing political influence because of their wealth.