Desoto county will gladly welcome you Bellevue Baptist!
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07/02/2012 7:53:58 PM PDT by
Sybeck1
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To: Sybeck1
Robert Lipscomb, director of the city's Division of Housing and Community Development, estimates that 30 percent of properties inside Memphis are tax exempt, including government buildings, churches, hospitals, nonprofits ... Sell some government buildings - raise money and increase tax base.
To: Sybeck1
This is a good thing. Too many non-profits benefit from the system. If they suffered along with us then we wouldn’t see our taxes rise so high.
The Feds should do the same thing. There are plenty of massive endowments that exist just to enrich the staff and owners. That wasn’t the purpose of the non-profit tax exemption.
33 posted on
07/03/2012 3:03:18 AM PDT by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Sybeck1
Any such payments would likely result in the charity budgets of the churches being reduced and the city will not be able to provide those same services for the same amount of money; they’ll hire employees who will never be as motivated as the church volunteers.
41 posted on
07/03/2012 6:33:06 AM PDT by
FormerLib
(Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
To: Sybeck1
Camel’s nose under the tent.
42 posted on
07/03/2012 7:06:47 AM PDT by
Snow Eagle
("... Against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC")
To: Sybeck1
Taxation of any recognized church is unlawful as a matter of Constitutional Law.
Taxation of a bona fide tax exempt company organized and recognized under IRS Section 501 (c)3 is unlawful as a matter of Federal law under any circumstance.
48 posted on
07/03/2012 2:56:54 PM PDT by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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