Time to tax religion

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January 13th, 2025 at 11:43:36 AM permalink
AZDuffman
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Quote: missedhervee
''Maybe you need to update your legal training and then. And basic accounting to learn the difference between revenue and profit."

Maybe...maybe not.

Churches, like businesses, use revenue to meet ongoing expenses; the remainder is profit and is retained, reinvested, and replowed.

Why shouldn't churches or non-profits pay a tax on the money remaining after regular expenses are met?

What makes them special?

Certainly nothing in my book.


Except it isnt profit. They have limits as to how much they can keep on their books. They have to use it for their stated purpose. They don’t hand it out to shareholders. Do you understand any of this? See I realize you wanted to be a bigoted theophobic tough guy with this thread, thinking you will impress all the others like that on this board. But you got shot down when I asked why just churches. Now you keep digging a bigger hole. Stop digging.

You are a bigot towards religion. We get it.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength
January 13th, 2025 at 11:53:55 AM permalink
missedhervee
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I post for my own edification and amusement: I've no interest in "impressing" others.

Forums such as this underscore the old adage "What fools these mortals be."

You didn't "shoot" me down, you simply got me to consider adding non-profit associations and groups to the list of those who should be taxed.

Trump's an atheist, He Gets Us: hopefully he'll tax them to pay for his expensive tariff and immigration policies.

Ka-ching.
January 13th, 2025 at 1:23:02 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: missedhervee
I post for my own edification and amusement: I've no interest in "impressing" others.

Forums such as this underscore the old adage "What fools these mortals be."

You didn't "shoot" me down, you simply got me to consider adding non-profit associations and groups to the list of those who should be taxed.

Trump's an atheist, He Gets Us: hopefully he'll tax them to pay for his expensive tariff and immigration policies.

Ka-ching.


A tax to pay for tariffs, which are a tax?

How was University of American Samoa, really?
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength
January 13th, 2025 at 1:32:06 PM permalink
rxwine
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A religion which promotes an all-powerful god shouldn't be collecting money from anyone, it should be paying it out.
"Facts are whatever I say they are." - Trump
January 13th, 2025 at 2:18:35 PM permalink
Gandler
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100%, for example churches are supposed to be banned from political endorsement, but during his last Presidency, Trump issued an executive order barring the IRS from investigating political speech in churches, so it grew. Modern churches are basically just Republican campaign rallies. Churches 100% benefit Republicans more than Democrats.

However, even if this was not the case, they should still be taxed. Religion is nonsense, even if it somehow supported Democrats more overall, the idea that people teaching delusions should be tax free is absurd. So I don't even have this view for that reason (though it does make it more annoying.)

That being said, this will never change. Because the vast majority of Dems and GOP will oppose it, so this may as well be fantasy land in America. For being a secular country, the U.S. is so weird in placing such a high value on religion to the point of being a sacred cow.
January 13th, 2025 at 3:34:45 PM permalink
1nickelmiracle
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In what ways are churches not taxed and for what? Lots of big corporations don't pay a lot of taxes just because they have the power to say they don't want to pay. I'm more afraid of being harmed by a powerful company than the churches.
January 13th, 2025 at 3:39:13 PM permalink
1nickelmiracle
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You make no sense. A group of people with similar beliefs, customs, and traditions and are self-promoting should not be allowed to help each other and should help someone else at their expense, this is what you said.
January 13th, 2025 at 4:01:00 PM permalink
missedhervee
Member since: Apr 23, 2021
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Quote: AZDuffman
A tax to pay for tariffs, which are a tax?

How was University of American Samoa, really?


I'd explain it to you but why should I waste my time?

You can just "bliss out..."
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