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Why do they pay little to no taxes?
And how are the exploiting the postal system?
Speaking of Fake organizations that should register as the political institutions that they are, why am i still being forced to subsidize The Church?
I guess the Constitution doesn’t matter to those people
Trump is after Amazon again:
mell sayserrc saysSpeaking of Fake organizations that should register as the political institutions that they are, why am i still being forced to subsidize The Church?
I guess the Constitution doesn’t matter to those people
Not really they are just tax exempt like other non profits. Of course you can advocate for getting rid of non profits in general. Other thsn that you pay nothing unlike in many European countries where you pay taxes for the church unless you specifically declare to leave it which has other ramifications. So could be worse.
What the fuck do you mean i pay nothing?
Who pays for the infrastructure that allows the Church to exist?
Exemptions from property taxes represent an even larger benefit to churches — the total value of all property owned by all religious groups in the United States easily runs into the tens of billions of dollars. This creates a problem, according to some, because the tax exemptions amount to a substantial gift of money to churches at the expense of taxpayers. For every dollar which the government cannot collect on church property, it must make up for by collecting it from citizens; as a consequence, all citizens are forced to indirectly support churches, even those they do not belong to and may even oppose.
Unfortunately, this indirect violation of the separation of church and state may be necessary in order to avoid a very direct violation of the free exercise of religion. The taxation of church property would put churches more directly at the mercy of the government because the power to tax is, in the long run, the power to control or even destroy.
Makes sense for a number of reasons. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post and is no friend of Trump. Also plays well with the vast numbers of small retailers that have been killed by Amazon on Main Streets across the country.