[Innovative]

Every time you think they can't come up with anything worse, they do...

Watch it go national...

[GeronL]

These days the first amendment only applies to perverts

[BenLurkin]

"driveway tax," for residents and businesses based on the number of times their driveway is used.

IS THIS A JOKE?

[Lurker]

"This is not a tax," She said in a telephone interview. "This is a fee."

If it's imposed by Government and backed up by the threat of force if you don't pay, it's a tax.

Period.

[Paladin2]

So, have they eliminated free parking along the streets too?

[meyer]

Church moves out of city limits, city loses tax dollars. Although, I do not think that this tax is constitutional.

[Cicero]

Will they tax homeowners double if their mothers-in-law move in? That would be the limit.

[Innovative]

Another point — this article is about churches and it’s outrageous, but they are taxing businesses, which will hurt the economy and make it harder for employers to offer jobs.

[sionnsar]

Get a big bus and run it as a shuttle between the nearest Park&Ride and the church.

Of course, the greedy ones will find a way to shut that down.

[Billthedrill]

“...or the free exercise thereof.” So unconstitutional it isn’t even funny. What a pity the regard for the Constitution is so low that it takes a court case to get two-bit tyrants to pay attention to it.

[Logical me]

Damn these fools. America is gone.

[momtothree]

Seems to me that the residents of the city pay their darn taxes; therefore, they pay for the road to park their cars. This is just evil in my book. Just a way to eliminate some churches. With everything going on in our country and the world, we need people to go to church more than ever. Just a thought.

[cva66snipe]

It seems to me the citizens of that town should be angry enough to demand some city officials resignations. I would not pay to use my own driveway and I sure would not put up with a church I attended being taxed by seating. On the other hand it may be a liberal majority town that thinks unconstitutional taxes are just great who knows?

[Candor7]

Kansas City also is discussing installing meters on people’s toilets and imposing a user pay tax which charges the set tax rate per flushing. You pull that toilet handle, and cha- ching, its auto deducted from your debit account right away./s

Implants are being discussed for both male ad female sexual organs, so that inndividuals can be taxed on every ocassion they engage in joint or solitary sexual practises. A radio beacon flashes a signal to a satellite, and CHA-CHINGETY CHING ,the set tax rate amount is auto deducted from your debit account. The Kansas City policy is that people have to much free sex these days.It needs to be metered.And besides, the tax rolls are open for public inspection as is always the case./s

They have no business cotrolling who or how many folks use
private drive ways. They need to get out of people’s lives and stay out.

[presently no screen name]

Did the citizens of mission know about this? Or is a big gov’t doing what citizens don’t know they need?

[Rebelbase]

The city taxes businesses here for impervious surfaces. They call it a runoff tax.

[SZonian]

This is not a tax, it's a fee...

[MarineBrat]

“This is not a tax, this is a fee.”

Filthy lousy rotten scum of the Earth alert. Those are fighting words if I’ve ever heard them.

[Monorprise]

There was a time when many States required church attendance.

[PastorBooks]

There was a prophecy back in the late 70s that there would come a tax on churches in later decades. It would start out as a small nuisance tax, but quickly grow to be a church-killing tax.

If this tax survives a court challenge, it could spread.

[xzins]

Whether tax or fee, they are still charging people to go to church. IOW, they are putting a burden on free exercise.