People that don't pay taxes receiving tax dollars - Houston church receives $4.4 million for Covid relief (employment, regular)
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I don't see the issue. The PPP is the Paycheck Protection Program. The church may not pay taxes on the collections from congregants, but the 350 employees pay federal income tax, and FICA. Those employees are entitled to PPP money as much as anyone.
If the money was used for its intended purpose, I see no issue either.
The question is: was it used as intended?
Not fair when one large company gets tons of money, while small businesses get NOTHING. Joel does not need the money, he has such riches, that he could have given each of his employees a huge check and that would have been good, meanwhile that money could have been spread out to 1,000 small businesses that would be alive today.
Excellent points.
Osteen could have covered this himself and set a wonderful example.
Alas...
There are no excuses for people suffocating in wealth like Joel O'Steen. It's unconscionable when people have lost their mom and pop business or their minimum wage jobs and people like O'Steen get money. Abominable.
So the people that work at Lakewood are not working due to Covid
Why should tax payers cover that bill?
Lakewood has plenty of money (besides the fact that they don't pay taxes) to pay those wages.
So the people that work at Lakewood are not working due to Covid
Why should tax payers cover that bill?
Lakewood has plenty of money (besides the fact that they don't pay taxes) to pay those wages.
As mentioned earlier...
Jerome and Sally work as accountants for Lakewood.
Jerome and Sally work as accountants for NAACP.
Jerome and Sally work as accountants for University of Michigan.
Explain why you want to screw over tax paying Jerome and Sally (version 1) because you don't like one of those non-profit employers?
Is it because of your politics that you just want to punish the ones that work for a church? Explain?
Excellent points.
Osteen could have covered this himself and set a wonderful example.
Alas...
That's a good point if you stopped and considered that Paul Pelosi is a part owner of a company that got PPP and he's worth more that Olsteen.
Could have set a wonderful example, alas.
P.S. I'm just pointing out Pelosi because there is some pretty obvious partisanship in this thread so I found that amusing.
Whole bunch of rock bands too.
Google famous people that got PPP, whole bunch of people all over the political spectrum.
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