(December 9, 2014 at 10:26 pm)Pablo Wrote:(December 9, 2014 at 9:27 pm)Heywood Wrote: Ultimately taxes are paid by people. A building or land doesn't pay taxes....people do. By taxing churches you are adding an additional tax burden onto people for exercising religion. The first amendments forbids congress from establishing laws that unnecessarily burden people in the exercise of religion.
If you don't think this is fair, start pushing to repeal or change the First Amendment.
But really, all you need to do is re-structure the way people pay taxes in this country. A straight consumption tax would do it.
How do you come up with that?
Why can't a church pay taxes on what it takes in like any other business?
Why not restructure how the church uses the money rather than changing the laws?
AS an employee I pay taxes, therefore the place I work for should not pay taxes.
Great logic there, huh?
I'm done responding to GC. It's like talking to a lobotomised monkey.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"