Westercon is also a non-profit convention. Staffers can at least deduct their expenses on their taxes if they itemize. They can't do that if they're helping out a for-profit convention.
Adrienne --- On Sun, 7/7/13, Tom Becker <t...@fanac.com> wrote: From: Tom Becker <t...@fanac.com> Subject: Re: [Basfa] DragonCon over Labor Day - Anyone else skipping TX and headed to ATL? To: "David Speakman" <da...@speakman.com>, "Adrienne Foster" <ajfos...@pacbell.net> Cc: basfa@lists.basfa.org Date: Sunday, July 7, 2013, 9:41 AM At 12:26 AM -0700 7/7/13, David Speakman wrote: > > As for the volunteers: The libertarian in me says that if volunteers are > willing to work for free membership and T-Shirt - then there is no harm since > they willingly do it. But the dyed-in-the-wool pro-union liberal in me yells > at the libertarian side of me to shut up and says shame on me being an > uncaring creep. (The conservative side of me was exiled in a bloodless coup > three decades ago and has not been heard from since.) Kudos to your sides for getting along as well as they do, including the conservative side. A real conservative understands the value of not messing with something that's working. As for the volunteers, I'm writing this from Westercon where we volunteers paid for our memberships and don't even get a free T-shirt. But we're not being exploited; it's just a shoestring operation that we are doing for the enjoyment of our fellow fen, and because we're basically nuts. Tom -- Tom Becker <t...@fanac.com> Potlatch n. A science fiction convention where readers and writers meet on common ground. http://potlatch-sf.org
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