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- Subject: Re: Religious Taxation (was: Madeleine Murray O'Hare)
- Message-ID: <76FuXB1w164w@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: emd@oneb.almanac.bc.ca
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 11:04:29 PST
- References: <1993Jan22.012617.4017@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- > Lance A. Brown (lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US) wrote:
- > : emd@oneb.almanac.bc.ca writes:
- > : > According to WHOM are these churches non-profit? As far as I can see,
- > : > most of them are religious BUSINESSES, run FOR profit. If they were reall
- > : > non-profit, they'd open up their books and show us. Furthermore, they'd
- > : > include their real estate assets on their books at market values. And
- > : > lastly, why on earth should we exempt religious sects from taxation?
- > : > If the church has a fire, the fire department will come to put it out. Wh
- > : > should my taxes pay for that? If you've got a building that receives
- > : > services, you should pay for those services.
- > :
- > : This point has been covered before. Succinctly, the power to tax an
- > : organization is a power to destroy it. I agree that churches should pay
- > : any fees levied to provide services such as fire and police protection that
- > : cover the whole community and are charged to the _whole_ community. Any
- > : other kind of taxation provides too much power to destroy a religion by
- > : taxing it into oblivion.
- >
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- Nobody, as far as I know, is asking for churches or religious organizations
- to pay EXTRA taxes over and above what everyone else payes. What we'd like
- to see is the ending of the AVOIDANCE of churches and religious businesses
- paying the SAME taxes we all have to pay. Their tax exempt status costs the
- rest of us a hell of a lot of money, as we have to make up for these
- free-loaders.
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