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Seeing as I believe organized religion as being the world's largest Ponzi scheme, I believe they should be paying taxes. Considering how they pretty much tell people how to vote in elections, for one reason. What do you think?
Seeing as I believe organized religion as being the world's largest Ponzi scheme, I believe they should be paying taxes. Considering how they pretty much tell people how to vote in elections, for one reason. What do you think?
If they campaign for a candidate or a party--yes. They're non profit and tax exempt now (as long as they stay out of politics) because no individual owns a church--the staff have salaries, but nobody makes a profit or personally owns the building or land. Churches do have the right to talk to their congregation about social issues and how that ties into their faith. If they endorse a candidate or party, then they should fall under the guidelines of a political organization.
Seeing as I believe organized religion as being the world's largest Ponzi scheme, I believe they should be paying taxes. Considering how they pretty much tell people how to vote in elections, for one reason. What do you think?
I don't think ANY organization should have a blanket tax exemption. However I DO think that the deeds they do should be deductible.
Churches, as well as 501c3's, get away with way too much. For instance, the president of the American Cancer Society makes a few dollars short of ONE MILLION a year. No, that's way, WAY too much. Non-profit employees should have to pay a special income tax when their salary exceeds a certain amount. Because the money they received as salary came from someone who received a deduction for their donation. So that's lost tax revenue. There should be a limit on their compensation. When their compensation goes OVER that limit, they should pay a penalty. I'd say twice the national average salary should be the absolute limit. After that, it's time to kick a little more in to the tax pool in order to cover the donor's write-off.
There also needs to be more strict expense limits. I could go on forever, but you get the idea.
Seeing as I believe organized religion as being the world's largest Ponzi scheme, I believe they should be paying taxes. Considering how they pretty much tell people how to vote in elections, for one reason. What do you think?
They are not supposed to practice politics, but some do. They need to stick with serving man rather than politics IMO.
I believe all religious institutions should be taxed without exception.
Churches should keep there nose's in their Bible but many of them are using the pulpit as a political weapon. Here in the south I heard one woman say, "we all vote like the preacher tells us to vote."
I believe that when they pick up political agendas that they should be taxed. Westboro Baptist, for example, should be taxed into poverty. The Catholic Church, while not explicitly political, does tend to evangelize certain positions that fall into political territory, and should be taxed somewhat (besides, the Catholic Church is not going broke anytime soon).
They should also lose tax exempt status as soon as they make a political contribution... churches are there to serve the people who attend them, and the people who attend them are there to serve some sort of God, not make decisions about who they are going to vote for. Churches displaying campaign signs should lose tax-exempt status as well, since that is also making a political statement (in a way).
If it were me, I would implement it in a way so that tax-exempt status could be won back if certain criteria were met.
Seeing as I believe organized religion as being the world's largest Ponzi scheme, I believe they should be paying taxes. Considering how they pretty much tell people how to vote in elections, for one reason. What do you think?
Yes.
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