(December 12, 2014 at 4:56 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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.
Unless a civil protest movement organization is a tax exempt organization it is taxed. So why not churches? If they are truly charitable or educational let them file as such.
(December 12, 2014 at 4:56 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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?
First because individuals get to deduct contributions to churches (a thing I don't think should be allowed as it establishes religion) and therefore there is no double tax. And second because when other people pool their income for other purposes, we tax that income.
I ask for nothing more than equality.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.