I just its kinda shitty that we have some who build multi-million dollar churches but they pay zip in taxes. I know it wont erase the deficit but every little bit helps right? I also realize some do charitable works but come on some evangelical preaches earn 1 million plus.
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Should religious organizations be taxed?
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Absolutely, nor should donations to religious organizations be tax exampt.
Honestly - I think it depends on the church.
Megachurches that go through millions of dollars, sure, but the small or tiny local churches and especially those that actually give or even are a charitable organization should be exempt.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan 
well obviously the law would have to be written better than I thought it out, maybe some sort of income threshold?
Yes.
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Yes, they should, through the fucking nose.
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(December 16, 2011 at 7:58 pm)Chuck Wrote: The distinction would be impossible to adjudicate. Better to tax moderately less destructive churches out of existence than to let more destructive ones get a free ride. They're only destructive because they're taking money from gullible fools, which people do all the time anyway. I'd rather let a few large ones get away than get rid of all the smaller ones that actually do more good than harm - like those that work more like community centers in poorer neighborhoods or provide charity for the underprivilaged. They might be sources of ignorance and delusion, but the people there are still more often good people in it for a good cause than not.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan 
Yes on every penny.
And small churches suck cock as much as big ones.  (December 16, 2011 at 8:03 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:(December 16, 2011 at 7:58 pm)Chuck Wrote: The distinction would be impossible to adjudicate. Better to tax moderately less destructive churches out of existence than to let more destructive ones get a free ride. Other people / institutions (are supposed to) pay taxes on the money they con off the gullible. Yeah, so many of the churches do things for the needy in their neighborhoods. So did Al Capone. |
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