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View Poll Results: Should synagogues, mosques and temples be taxed?
Yes 33 55.93%
No 26 44.07%
Voters: 59. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-16-2014, 08:46 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Nowhere does it state that a church may only exist to do charity work.
As nowhere does 'it' state churches should be tax-free, eh?

 
Old 12-16-2014, 09:00 AM
 
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Do they tax churches? If so, then yeah. If not, then no.
 
Old 12-16-2014, 09:06 AM
 
Location: NC
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Churches are excluded because they are the single largest organization in America, and indeed the entire world (charity) that provides food, clothing, shelter and medicine to poor people and those in need. Without churches, our societies would have been messed up with much higher poverty rate, higher crime rate and violence, and other big mess. Sure, it still happends, but at least by far less. Unlike other religious groups, Christians help everybody, and not only Christians.

Let's not forget the hospitals, soup kitchens, red cross, salvation army, and education the churches and Christian organizations have founded.

Everybody should thank Christians all the time!!
Very narrow-minded view, and not even correct. You lost all credibility.
 
Old 12-16-2014, 09:49 AM
 
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You must spend money on renovation, otherwise it will be ruined
Up keep and maintence of course. massive multi million dollar renovations? installing multiple 60" HD TVs? million dollar landscaping with waterfalls, fountains and marble stone? Is that really necessary?
 
Old 12-16-2014, 09:54 AM
 
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Up keep and maintence of course. massive multi million dollar renovations? installing multiple 60" HD TVs? million dollar landscaping with waterfalls, fountains and marble stone? Is that really necessary?
Probably not but what we see here is what we see in so many threads. People wanting to punish the whole for the bad things the few do.
 
Old 12-16-2014, 09:58 AM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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Interesting that the question pertains to mosques, synagogues and temples, but not churches.
Tax them all.

 
Old 12-16-2014, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Calgary, AB
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How about we do both?
Again, why? Why do you need to waste money on religion symbols on public land? What do they do?
 
Old 12-16-2014, 11:03 AM
 
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Sadly at times it seems that they(Christians) want to cross that line and create a state religion.
No; it nothing like that in that religious symbols do not a state religion make. Just look at what is happening in radical Muslim states as to real religious control of state. But then few really believe its based on Muslim religion any more than the Nazi's where religious. Its more like political correctness than a religion really and that is the wants and desires of few in total control by use of force.
 
Old 12-16-2014, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Montréal & New York area
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Again, why? Why do you need to waste money on religion symbols on public land? What do they do?
Waste? They give protection, love, faith and hope to most people!
 
Old 12-16-2014, 11:37 AM
 
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Waste? They give protection, love, faith and hope to most people!

so does free ice cream, public art and animals.
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