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Hey, it's Mary Harris, and I just want to thank you for listening to What Next.

You can hear new episodes of the show every week on Amazon Music, where you can find what next and all your Slate favorites. You can also ask Alexa directly to play any of your favorite Slate podcasts. Emily, a speed round of questions if you're up for it.

Sure.

This is Emily Tamkin, a global affairs journalist.

And we're talking about a bill just passed by the House that does different things depending on who you ask and how you phrase the question.

Do you think most people would support a law that says Americans held hostage abroad should get extra time to pay their taxes?

Yes, I do. Okay.

What about a law that says non-profits shouldn't be able to funnel money to terrorists?

Of course.

Okay.

Now, if you asked people whether Congress should pass a law that makes it easier for the president to punish his critics. What do you think they'd say?

I would hope that they would say no. The Stop Terror Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act does two things, as the title suggests. It prevents the IRS from charging penalties

on late taxes to Americans held hostage abroad.

No one objects to that part. The problem, Emily says, comes with the stop-terror financing part,

which sounds good on the surface. But she argues it's extraordinarily vague, with the power

to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, effectively crippling them.

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