Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?

[Thumpalumpacus]

The request is for a qualification of your unsubstantiated "Yes".

How does taxing the media companies that form the press obstruct the press?

The qualification he is seeking can be found in posts 1-280 of this thread.

No, it can't.

Link specifically to an instance where the media was forced to mitigate its message at the instigation of the IRS.

That is, after all, what you are claiming.

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Read the thread Rob, one guy asked if my argument applied to media companies....so that person clearly understood my argument......which means it had have been laid out in this thread. I replied "yes" Then comes Parker with a silly request for a citation for a conclusion of a laid out argument. If Parker wants to ask for a citation for a fact used to support that argument....such as the Supreme Court saying back in 1819(if my memory is correct) that "the power to tax is the power to destroy" that is something else entirely. However parroting "Citation needed" as he did got the answer it deserved.

Look, I had given you credit for not being so stupid that you should understand that that sarcasm was pointing out the need for evidence ... but apparently I was wrong; you are indeed so stupid that you didn't get the simple gist.

You need to lay out exactly how the tax codes have been used to hamper a free press, since that is what you've claimed.

If you can't support that, then I and others will simply file this as one more entry into "Heywood's Bullshit Roundfile" and move on -- no harm, no foul, just you being your arguing-out-of-your-ass self. It really is simple, and you should be smart enough to see it.

Emphasis on "should."

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Hey, what if paying taxes was against my religion? Could I opt out? Being forced to pay a tax would surely be prohibition then, eh?

I think you're onto something. PM sent.