"...and one last point, i do not think that churches should be tax exempt...why should non-religious people have to pay a higher tax rate, since churches are exempt...let the members pay"
Members of churches do pay taxes. Churches do not operate at a profit. The minister pays taxes as do all other enployees of the church. The balance of the money is usually given away to people like you. Maybe it is time that you started counting you blessings instead of castigating others.
tenn2005, who wrote: "Members of churches do pay taxes. Churches do not operate at a profit. The minister pays taxes as do all other enployees of the church. The balance of the money is usually given away to people like you."
...money given away to people like me??...i happen to pay a great deal of money in taxes...and as far as your congregation paying personal taxes, that's the law...but i shouldn't have to support your cult, or any other church for that matter...i don't care if it's none profit or not, it's your members responsibilty to pay for utilities, etc, and so your church should pay property taxes, i don't need to be subsidizing you
...btw, is this not-for-profit??: "Mormon Church to Spend One Billion Dollars on a Mall in SLC"..."An organization that spends 15-20 times more on real estate to develop malls than on helping the poor is, by any definition, a corporation, not a religion. An average American Mormon gives thousands of dollars in tithing, yet only a few dollars of that donation is for the poor."...do a search, there's plenty of information on this out there