NRA found me

[TexasRifleman]

Well you know the NRA is a "non-profit who only pays the president of the NRA $950k/year

Once again, data without context is just pissing in the wind......

Non Profit Salaries

Wayne LaPierre - $633,823
Red Cross President - $651,957
United Way Pres - $420,000
American Heart Association Pres - $656,608
President of Heritage Foundation - $633,849
Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York - $ $875,301
CEO, Boy Scouts of America - $ $552,378

At private foundations of all types, the median top exec salary was $341,397

This all from tax forms for the year 2005.

So, with actual data we see that the President of the NRA salary is inline with other non profits of similar size.
Not good or bad, but you have to take this kind of stuff in context.

Now, the CEO average for the Fortune 500 was $2.4 million.

That is context.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled ranting and raving.....

 

[geojap]

Well put, TexasRifleman.

 

[cornman]

H arlon B. Carter, who created the modern NRA in the 1970s, earned about $70,000 a year (about $200,000 in today's dollars) as executive vice president and was driven to meetings in the company Chevrolet. Wayne LaPierre, who currently sits upon the executive vice president throne, pocketed about $950,000 in 2005. The parking lot at the association's twin-glass-towered headquarters off Interstate 66 in Virginia is filled with shiny new BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes.

 

[cornman]

H arlon B. Carter, who created the modern NRA in the 1970s, earned about $70,000 a year (about $200,000 in today's dollars) as executive vice president and was driven to meetings in the company Chevrolet. Wayne LaPierre, who currently sits upon the executive vice president throne, pocketed about $950,000 in 2005. The parking lot at the association's twin-glass-towered headquarters off Interstate 66 in Virginia is filled with shiny new BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes.

What's unseemly about the stratospheric six-figure salaries flowing into NRA leadership wallets is that the cash comes from hundreds of thousands of members who are hard pressed to write $35 annual membership renewal checks or send an extra $10 or $20 to the NRA Political Victory Fund to protect their guns.

Then there's the question of the millions paid to outside lobbyists (including an ex-employee and personal friend of LaPierre's). And the millions more doled out to LaPierre's friends at the Mercury Group ad agency. Who knows how much cash, thanks to the NRA, has found its way to the company that arranges the association's travel tours, allows members to buy a home through NRA real estate brokers, finance it via an NRA mortgage, save with NRA banking services, take out NRA insurance, get laser eye surgery and shoes resoled by an NRA-affiliated vendor, then pay for everything with an NRA credit card. The association claims it was only coincidence, but LaPierre's wife happened to be the vice president for marketing for the firm that set up that bonanza of member-discount services.

The media and anti-gun politicians make a mistake by engaging with the NRA, penning inflammatory headlines, threatening to crush the organization and salt the earth beneath its headquarters. They are just reminding the NRA faithful that they're surrounded by enemies who threaten to batter down their doors and snatch their firearms. And all it results in is the constant "ka-ching" of cash rolling into NRA coffers.

If the threat to honest citizens' right to own firearms ever dipped below the radar, so too would the association's political might. That's why the NRA leadership will never tolerate the give-and-take that makes up real problem-solving. It would be bad for business.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401328.html

 

[TexasRifleman]

H arlon B. Carter, who created the modern NRA in the 1970s, earned about $70,000 a year

OK once again, pissing in the wind without context.

Please also cite the salaries of non profit executives from the 70's.

That was almost 40 years ago, it has nothing to do with anything.

You are more than welcome to disagree with anything the NRA does but when you spout statistics with no context it really doesn't mean anything.

And again, the context nonsense:

The parking lot at the association's twin-glass-towered headquarters off Interstate 66 in Virginia is filled with shiny new BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes.

The parking lot at the elementary school up the road from me is filled with BMWs and $60,000 GMC Denalis. Should I take it from that data that teachers are paid too much?

My doctor drives a pickup with at least 200,000 miles on it. Does that data by itself mean anything at all?


Here is some data, make your own context. Just for grins, using the Harlon Carter example cited:

In 2005, $70,000.00 from 1975 is worth:

$253,919.02 using the Consumer Price Index
$208,153.28 using the GDP deflator
$295,169.00 using the value of consumer bundle
$252,758.02 using the unskilled wage
$386,377.67 using the nominal GDP per capita
$531,265.95 using the relative share of GDP

So what exactly are you showing us by citing Harlon Carters salary?

Like I say, debate is great, but you can't just toss out statistics and facts that have no context and hope they stick.

 

[Gunnerpalace]

Freeze! if anyone wants to find out how much he earns just check their "tax receipt waiver thing" I don't know what it's called but non-profits have to file them, that being said if he (Wayne) makes 300 grand a year he could halve that and give that to the cause, does he I don't know.

Also it is kind of pointless for me to complain to my senator, Mr Levin.

My money is best served in the courts I go with the SAF. NRA is cool and all they do the biggest share, but I am free (this still is America for now) to give to whoever I want to.

 

[TexasRifleman]

It's called a Form 990 and there's a copy from 2004 here:

http://gunguys.com/lapierresalary.pdf

 

[Titus]

The parking lot at the association's twin-glass-towered headquarters off Interstate 66 in Virginia is filled with shiny new BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes.

While I'm not going to lose any sleep at the thought of Wayne trying to get by on $633k/year, keep in mind that many of those cars represent the employees and customers of the range, museum/store, restaurant or several other businesses that have offices in the building. Though for $200k, most folks in the area would take a job with a little less responsibility too.

 

[marshall3]

Spend money to support your rights...

It's the right thing to do.