Posted on 11/09/2017 8:20:52 PM PST by EdnaMode
Think for a minute. You want federal bureaucrats to decide what is a valid religion and what isn't?
Nothing could possibly go wrong with that concept, even under a Democratic administration, right?
I question why any church or religious organization should get special treatment from the IRS or tax code.
You want federal bureaucrats to decide what is a valid religion and what isn’t?
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Investigate Scientology for Organized Crime, or RICO, or kidnapping, or the other laws they break.
“You want federal bureaucrats to decide what is a valid religion and what isn’t?”
Uh, tax exemption is about “valid religion”? How about taxing all churches or taxing NONE. Taxes are punishment anyway. There should only be sales tax. That’s all. Interstate sales = tax goes to the Feds. Intrastate sales = State tax. Period. No more confusion. No more bureaucracy. Simple. You have already paid ALL YOUR TAXES in the counter or during online checkout. No back-taxes. No refunds. No deductions. No NOTHING. Simple.
It should, asking with Islam.
In theory I agree that I don’t want bureaucrats deciding what religions are valid.
But in practice, we already have them deciding all sorts of similar things - like whether TEA Party organizations deserve tax exempt status, whose tax returns should be audited, etc.
It is only conservatives who play fair. We need to clean house in order to allow us to play fair. Following the rules and behaving like gentlemen when the opposition behaves like street thugs is a recipe for extinction.
Liberals, communists, terrorists, fake religions, and all sorts of other scammers consistently and frequently abuse the letter of the law. It’s time to clamp down on this and fight fire with fire. For the record, I don’t think islam qualifies as a religion, either.
Islam should have no tax exempt status.
>>I question why any church or religious organization should get special treatment from the IRS or tax code.
But as long as they do; how about we at least remove this money-making scheme of brainwashing cult from the list?
Yet, we have jihadis hiding behind the “religion” of a murderous, totalitarian cult.
>>>You want federal bureaucrats to decide what is a valid religion and what isn’t?
Um, they do now.
And if you can’t remove Scientology from that list, you either can’t remove anyone; or, you don’t know what it’s all about.
The HuffPost and The Hill, two hardcore Dem media organs, are selling a story.
Bah.
Fine with a lot of reasonable people if the Scientologists lost heir tax-exempt “religious” status.
Scientology is a cult, it is not a religion!
“You want federal bureaucrats to decide what is a valid religion and what isn’t?”
That’s exactly what they do already. You think every group of crackpots that claim they are a “religion” should AUTOMATICALLY get religious tax exemption just because the group of crackpots SAY they are a religion? Because that’s the alternative to having “federal bureaucrats decide what is a valid religion”.
And BTW, it’s an absolute travesty that Scientology received tax exemption: the only reason they got it was because thousands of members sued hundreds of IRS employees personally and the IRS Commissioner did a deal with the “church” that if they were granted tax status, the “church” would have all of their members drop the thousands of lawsuits. Naturally, it was papa Bush that caved, you know, the same papa Bush who just announced he voted for Hillary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_status_of_Scientology_in_the_United_States
15% pure, flat corporate/business/self-employment tax.
No deductions, loopholes, credits, or anything.
Everybody pays the same rate.
Tax revenues would skyrocket.
$200-$400 billion wasted on tax compliance and on attorneys would vanish.
I believe it would be a huge mistake for the President to weigh in on this matter in any way, but I wholeheartedly support the idea of revoking the Church of Scientology’s tax exempt status.
I have experience with that organization, and know for a fact that it’s a despicable, mind controlling cult, that robs its members of their souls, their families, their dreams, their money, and their lives.
Why should any political organization have tax exempt status?
Scientology is a total fraud. it only started calling itself a “religion” (which it isn’t) to gain that tax-exempt status. The whole fantasy was concocted by third-rate science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. It’s all about money.
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