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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Tax the Church
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.020808.25896@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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- References: <2936548336.1.p00168@psilink.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:08:08 GMT
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- "James F. Tims" (p00168@psilink.com) wrote:
- : >FROM: Mike A. McAngus <mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- : >
- : [...]
- : >Now I have a more complete reply that I compiled from statistics sent to me
- by
- : >Carol D. Davis of the Congressional Reference Division. These statistics we
- re
- : >compiled from _The World Almanac and Book of Facts_ for the years 1973, 1983
-
- : >and 1993.
- : >
- : > 1972 1982 1992
- : >Number of churches: 288,856 324,555 346,634
- : >
- : >Hope this satisfies Mr. Ciszek. Now, if I could receive that citation
- : >concerning Dr. O'Hair.
- : >--
- : >Mike McAngus |If you'd come today you would have reached
- :
- : 200/240 = ~.83 Ballpark growth in population (no reference)
- : 289/347 = ~.83 Church growth.
- :
- : The growth in the number of churchs does not represent the problem.
- : Congregations do not normally rotate through a cycle of alternate
- : prayer sights. If they only owned churches, they wouldn't do much to the
- : tax base because they don't just keep buying up church buildings.
-
- My data shows that the number of churches is growing. I did not add the growth
- in other church property because the tax status of such property is a matter of
- local legislation (according to my research). Even if the number of new
- churches is keeping up with the growth in population, there are more and more
- churches and their property is being taken out of the tax rolls.
-
- [rest of the post deleted]
- --
- Mike McAngus | Parenthood is too important a responsibility
- mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org | to force on anyone.
- The Truth is still the Truth |
- Even if you choose to ignore it. | Sarah Weddington (the above is from memory)
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