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There's no reason why tax donations to a church should be deductible. All of those tea bagger types all for small government, but few of them take on this issue. They're only for reducing some kinds of spending.
There's no reason why tax donations to a church should be deductible. All of those tea bagger types all for small government, but few of them take on this issue. They're only for reducing some kinds of spending.
There is no reason why donations to any organization should be tax deductible. And the Tea Party has nothing to do with this.
oh yes, let's follow Spain's example on everything. They are doing such a great job. Maybe we too can turn into a nation that is totally bankrupt and maybe we can get bailouts from other countries?
oh yes, let's follow Spain's example on everything. They are doing such a great job. Maybe we too can turn into a nation that is totally bankrupt and maybe we can get bailouts from other countries?
Nita
Whether Spain is doing a great job politically and economically hasn't much if anything to do with the topic of taxing churches in America ... which topic you can Google without including the word "Spain" and get millions of hits, all of which predate this story about the Spanish considering church taxation ... thus sort of doing away with any link to "following Spain's example" ...
btw: you'll note there is nothing in my presentation of the topic that says I am proposing such -- although admittedly now, having read more on the topic, I am getting more and more inclined to agree that wholesale 'absolution' (gotta love my puns) from taxation is maybe nuts.
Actually no. Fundamentalist churches receive a lot more money from their congregation, which tends to be poorer than mainline churches. I doubt that these same fundamentalist give to the United Way. In addition, the United Way has to post how much of the money that they receive goes to administrative costs. No such requirement for churches. It would be an interesting number to see though.
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