RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 12, 2014 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2014 at 5:18 pm by Heywood.)
(December 12, 2014 at 4:26 pm)robvalue Wrote: They're a business, and they're not above the law of everyone else. You can practice your religion just fine wherever you are if you keep it out of people's faces.
It's this obsession with needing to be seen to be practicing the religion, rather than just quietly doing it, that is the problem.
Ooh I got a badge or something now! Yay meI've talked a whole lot of crap to earn that.
A business is one person or a coming together of multiple persons to engage in the exercise of commerce. A church is the coming together of people to engage in the exercise of religion. A church is not a business any more than a civil protest(people coming together to speak) is a business.
People are taxed as individuals, why then should we tax them again when they pool their resources together to engage in the exercise of religion?
Rob, you have made it quit clear that you want to see the destruction of religion. The Supreme court has already stated that the power to tax is the power to destroy. Someday people of your mindset will be in power and use the power of taxation to attempt to destroy religion. The only thing that prevents this is a prohibition on taxing people when they come together to engage in religion(i.e. establishing a church).
