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To: ColdWater; metmom

Where in the constitution does it give churches tax breaks?


Wasn’t it you that said you weren’t going to bring this up?

Oh well!

First of all church goers DO PAY taxes, just like everyone else! Most churches collect money and then turn around and help people with it. (Of course there are FALSE churches that collect money and then their leadership buys limos and million dollar homes...but that’s a different ball of wax)

SO what purpose does it serve to pay taxes on charity that will ultimately go all too often to govt waste ANYWAY?

And let me get this straight, it’s not bad enough Christians pay for failed gubmint SCHOOL taxes AND are responsible for sending their kids to Christian schools or homeschool on top of it, but you think they should pay taxes TWICE on their payrolls and then all over again in church also?


1,115 posted on 09/18/2008 1:59:38 PM PDT by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther

Backwards liberal thinking. The question shouldn’t be why the government doesn’t tax churches but why the government taxes income. Last I heard it was illegal for the government to collect income tax.

But try to fight it and find out what happens.


1,116 posted on 09/18/2008 2:05:32 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: tpanther
Wasn’t it you that said you weren’t going to bring this up?

No.

1,118 posted on 09/18/2008 2:10:24 PM PDT by ColdWater
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but you think they should pay taxes TWICE on their payrolls and then all over again in church also?

Once again you post falsely about my thinking. Please! Also, you post shows that you do not understand the tax codes. Even if an income tax was enforced (which I did say I supported) payrolls are a deduction and the church would not pay tax on that. It would be the same as now.

1,122 posted on 09/18/2008 2:15:20 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: tpanther
(Of course there are FALSE churches that collect money and then their leadership buys limos and million dollar homes...but that’s a different ball of wax)

Please acknowledge that this is where my complaint originated as I posted in my original post on this topic before you set out on your rants of distortion.

1,123 posted on 09/18/2008 2:16:52 PM PDT by ColdWater
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