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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (788)1/12/2001 5:35:52 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Why should churches be exempt from "regulation" that ordinary citizens are not exempt from. Taxing revenues and requiring some accounting principles to be applied to revenue streams seems not to be a separation of church and state issue. The government ALREADY decides whether a church has tax exempt status or not. Refer to the Scientology case. There is precedent. It seems it makes the whole thing cleaner if every citizen or corporate body pays taxes. Heck, if not, then a church has rights I don't have and the government is according all tax-exempt religion special status that ATHEISTS don't have in their social organizations.

Fine. Purely charitable work done by churches should be tax exempt, but what if there are prayers or sermons involved (like Salvation Army soup kitchens). Indirectly the government is establishing a religion by forcing other taxpayers to replace the revenue that would have been due the government had there not been this loop hole.
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