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May 21st, 2021 at 2:03:28 PM permalink
petroglyph
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-05-21/its-time-start-taxing-churches

<<Newsweek reported that over 88,000 churches in America received in excess of $7 billion in PPP loans during the Covid-19 pandemic. Once churches start running to the government for taxpayer money, it is high time that they are audited, taxed accordingly, and treated like the businesses that they represent in our society similar to the rest of the services economy. >>
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May 21st, 2021 at 2:22:22 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: petroglyph
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-05-21/its-time-start-taxing-churches

<<Newsweek reported that over 88,000 churches in America received in excess of $7 billion in PPP loans during the Covid-19 pandemic. Once churches start running to the government for taxpayer money, it is high time that they are audited, taxed accordingly, and treated like the businesses that they represent in our society similar to the rest of the services economy. >>


Not at all. Government closed them down at the point of a gun they deserve the same as anyone else got.
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May 21st, 2021 at 4:07:43 PM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: AZDuffman
Not at all. Government closed them down at the point of a gun they deserve the same as anyone else got.


Tax exempt status should figure into the equation on what they get paid.
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May 22nd, 2021 at 6:33:09 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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How can this be? I thought we heard on here Taiwan was doing such a great job containing the china virus?

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May 22nd, 2021 at 8:51:55 AM permalink
missedhervee
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We in the USA are treating the coronavirus the same way we did Vietnam; spend a lot of time and money blundering blindly along then when everyone is tired of it we just declare victory and forget about it.
May 22nd, 2021 at 9:17:46 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: missedhervee
We in the USA are treating the coronavirus the same way we did Vietnam; spend a lot of time and money blundering blindly along then when everyone is tired of it we just declare victory and forget about it.


Fine by me. Too many people in the USA think you can wave a magic want or pass a law and it should be fixed.
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May 22nd, 2021 at 11:53:32 AM permalink
petroglyph
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Quote: AZDuffman
Fine by me. Too many people in the USA think you can wave a magic want or pass a law and it should be fixed.


https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the-cdc-is-manipulating-data-to-prop-up-vaccine-effectiveness/

"Just like that, being asymptomatic – or having only minor symptoms – will no longer count as a “Covid case” but only if you’ve been vaccinated."

<To be clear: If these new policies had been the global approach to “Covid” since December 2019, there would never have been a pandemic at all.>
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May 22nd, 2021 at 12:27:04 PM permalink
terapined
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Quote: petroglyph
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the-cdc-is-manipulating-data-to-prop-up-vaccine-effectiveness/

"Just like that, being asymptomatic – or having only minor symptoms – will no longer count as a “Covid case” but only if you’ve been vaccinated."

<To be clear: If these new policies had been the global approach to “Covid” since December 2019, there would never have been a pandemic at all.>

Regardless
Deaths and cases are down in this country
Vaccines are effective
or
We would be experiencing what India is going through
Vaccinated?
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May 22nd, 2021 at 4:41:31 PM permalink
kenarman
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Quote: terapined
Regardless
Deaths and cases are down in this country
Vaccines are effective
or
We would be experiencing what India is going through
Vaccinated?


That would be great 1/5 the cases and 1/9 the deaths in India per capita compared to the US.
"but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin
May 22nd, 2021 at 7:48:02 PM permalink
rxwine
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India has not been counting many people dying at home.

Quote:
Fifty people from his village, Ashapur, and a neighboring one, Tilamapur, have died in the past two weeks. Most died at home, gasping for breath, with fevers. But only five or six of them were officially counted as COVID-19 deaths, Pandey said.


https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/04/30/992451165/india-is-counting-thousands-of-daily-covid-deaths-how-many-is-it-missing
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