ORIGINAL: KidEpoxy
Jug,
It really is just 2 simple questions.
What numbers did they divide to get the $18 MA membership cost they tell USPS ?
How is that not what we tell Members the magazine costs them ?
without legal speculation by guys that legal speculated so well over the Paintball issue, or demanding everyone use the $6 figure they now dont want to use. Lets hear from the AMA, an AMA document, or the USPS instead.
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oh, didnt see Doc get a post in, this aint a shot at you Doc, your observation is quite valid.>
First off the AMA just doesn't spit out a number for the USPS. It's based on the financial records.
The USPS PCSC formulates what they call "Readership costs". These are all expenses depreciation, and similar items that are directly connected with the production and distribution of the readership content of the periodical for the upcoming fiscal year. Since the unrelated business is ATTACHED to the non-profit arm the PCSC takes into consideration all expenses from both arms of the NFP.
The number comes from all dollars associated to the costs of production. This includes receipts from both the unrelated business (which is MA magazine) AND any additional expenses provided by the AMA (which is the 501C3 a.ka. AMA). It's those combined dollars costs, plus expenses depreciated. So it does include both money spent directly, payroll provided by AMA, depreciated dollars and ANY other expense correlated to the combined contributed costs to produce MA.
There are perks of operating a not for profit company and those perks are unrelated business, which are tied together. The only time they are not tied together is for the taxman. But even then you can move dollars and cents within the legal limits. The AMA uses this perks, which some, well namely one person calls "unfair business practices" to produce a magazine for their membership based which comes out to a bottom line cost of about $7 per member per year. The AMA is not the only group to do this, this is textbook and it's called fairplay. Again, Hoss is mad at the lawmakers, blaming it on the AMA.
without legal speculation by guys that legal speculated so well over the Paintball issue, or demanding everyone use the $6 figure they now dont want to use. Lets hear from the AMA, an AMA document, or the USPS instead.
[link=http://pe.usps.gov/cpim/ftp/pubs/Pub417/Pub417.pdf]
Enjoy.[/link] Don't tell me that you believe Hoss? You actually think the AMA is really that stupid. You will also read in the doc I just sent you what the crimes are for filing illegal docs.