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By some estimates, the property tax exemption alone removes $100 billion in property from U.S. tax rolls. (And it's not just the big churches where that exemption bites: According to authors like Sikivu Hutchinson, the proliferation of small storefront churches is a major contributor to poverty and societal dysfunction in poor communities, since these churches remove valuable commercial property from the tax base and ensure that local governments remain cash-strapped and unable to provide basic services.) Just about the only restriction that churches have to abide by in return is that they can't endorse political candidates -- and even this trivial, easily evaded prohibition is routinely and flagrantly violated by the religious right.
why? Did you ever see clinton run to a white church when he got in trouble? Fact of the matter is, black people tend to vote democrat. When a democrat politician is in trouble, or wants to reach out to the religious, it just so happens it's among religious people in their constituency.
why? Did you ever see clinton run to a white church when he got in trouble? Fact of the matter is, black people tend to vote democrat. When a democrat politician is in trouble, or wants to reach out to the religious, it just so happens it's among religious people in their constituency.
The op is:
How we all pay for the huge tax privileges granted to religion
Your response to the op was to say this:
oh boo hoo.
You can start with the "reverend" Jesse Jackson and every democrat who ever runs to a black church when they do something stupid.
If you don't see the bigotry in this remark, I am not going to explain it to you.....
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