• Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Reminder that the both the Mormon & Catholic “Churches” could feed, house & clothe every single homeless person in the USA indefinitely & it would only cost them a fraction of their net worth.

    They had rather sit on their wealth like the Dragon though, regardless of the punishments for that described in their “Bible”.

    That’s how you know they don’t really believe in their own bullshit.

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        11 months ago

        How do you reckon we make that happen? Any hope, or are they as powerful as billionaires?

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          I’m far less worried about churches paying sales, property, and income taxes than people making tens of billions of dollars a year.

          We’ll get WAY MORE social benefit out of properly taxing the ultra-ultra rich than we will out of the hundreds of thousands of mini-churches who have volunteer receptionists twice a week or even the few hundred mega churches with jet-setting pastors.

          Turn your ire on the bigotry and hypocrisy of a church that attempts to profess love and hate at the same time and out of the same mouth to your heart’s content, but when it comes to money, we need to deal with the robber barons. They’re the ones causing the economic problem.

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        11 months ago

        What? Churches are specifically exempt from ALL taxes in the US. I clouding income, property, and all others.

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          It’s unacceptable that they’re the only ones who are officially exempt.

          Kind of seems like the person you’re replying to is well-aware of that, and when they said “Churches need to pay taxes,” they didn’t mean it as “churches are currently legally obligated to pay taxes” but rather “churches paying taxes is something that needs to happen.”

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      11 months ago

      Libertarians are always certain religious charities will foot all of the bills though.

      Like if humans were perfect and weren’t greedy assholes.