Time to tax religion
January 13th, 2025 at 11:43:36 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 136 Posts: 19787 |
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 Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 128 Posts: 3689 | 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 Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 136 Posts: 19787 |
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 Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 200 Posts: 20764 | 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 Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 28 Posts: 4576 | 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 Member since: Mar 5, 2013 Threads: 24 Posts: 626 | 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 Member since: Mar 5, 2013 Threads: 24 Posts: 626 | 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 Threads: 128 Posts: 3689 |
I'd explain it to you but why should I waste my time? You can just "bliss out..." |