Taxing Churches

Another run at Honest John's Fair Share Olympics, in the Tax Religion event.

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[practicalmagic9]

would audits be a way of policing these mega churches and preachers?especially those who are so blantantly opulant.

[MacNutz2]

@practicalmagic9 I don't know but I believe that if you are liable for taxation you must also be open to tax audit.

[LeksServices]

Love the change to the buffer bar. Now I can't tell when I can play my videos! T_T

[MacNutz2]

@LeksServices buffer bar??

[LeksServices]

@LeksServices - Everyone needs to bug report the buffer bar. What were they thinking by making it effectively invisible?

[MacNutz2]

@LeksServices Oh, that 'improvement'. how does one do a bug report?

[MrJohnnyrace]

Scumbags like Benny Hinn and his "ministry" make $200 Million tax free dollars a year plus perks. He drives a Bentley car and wears Rolex watches. Pat Robertson had a telathon for help for Africa. He wanted two helicopters for helping them. The money went fot two new copters for his diamond mines there in Africa. The perversions of these scumbags is not morally right.

[BitterCanuck]

Who cares if they collapse? Tax all religious organizations. 

[wrjamescom]

@billzybobb When they make medican claims, they should be held to the same standards as medicine companies. But I'd say the same for other scammers, not just faith healers. Homeopathy and Chiropractic are also scams without any medical validity and those peddling it should be treated by the law as scamming crooks along with faith healers.

[billzybobb]

Churches should be placed under the auspices of the food and drug administration. They must prove their product is real, and does what it says, and has the effect they pretend. If they can't, they should be categorized as a business and taxed.

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

@DonQuixotedeKaw In addition, as theisms, ritualized in groups, are the root of MOST theocracies, which go on to become terrorists, theistic groups should have to be registered, and their meetings recorded and monitored by watchdog groups. Their registration fees will pay the costs of said groups. When any meetings are discovered as being held in private, the individuals are fined. Then after 3 strikes, be arrested on suspicion of theocratic terrorism.

Theism should be a right-theocracy a crime.

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

@DonQuixotedeKaw But, on the assumption that these card houses will soon fall from their own top heaviness, I would propose a mitigation tax, on all individual members of any theocratic formation. Any belief based organization (theistic or not) that so much as preaches to a squirrel in the yard, should have each of its members be heavily taxed, for the damages they're doing to society, and the monetary costs of psychological and educational mitigation, that they incur on the entire nation.

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

I think the only reason I disagree with attempting to tax churches at this time, is that it's a waste of effort. The theocracies are too firmly entrenched within the government. Not only have the corporate personhood worshiping Mammonist overthrown the US, their Dominionist representatives (like the Norwegian terrorist) enforce more lunacy as law, every day. I think the laws on the books should try to be enforced first, namely the anti-racketeering RICO act. Seize & imprison the grifters.