r/atheism • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '12
Something is seriously wrong with America.
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u/tman21 Jun 25 '12
Question here, don't most, if not all churches, get there money from donations from the members? Why should those donations be taxed? Property tax I understand, but almost anything else, I don't.
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u/The_Austin Jun 25 '12
I really disagree that church tax breaks = house foreclosures.
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u/koryface Jun 25 '12
That church paid my mom's mortgage for a year so she could avoid foreclosure.
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u/drayb1986 Jun 25 '12
This building was an enormous sacrifice for the members who built it a hundred and fifty years ago. They had to load these huge boulders of granite down from the fucking canyon, chisel away at them, and lift them or push them up into whatever position they were designated for. It took them some 40 years to build--they didn't hire some company to do it. No, these were members toiling away at it for years, sacrificing their time, money, and property. So don't fucking post stuff like this, if you don't know what's up. This fucking building went up like this in the middle of a poor hicktown.
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Jun 25 '12
Does this make sense?
The Supreme Court also said that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy." Taxing churches breaks down the healthy separation of church and state and leads to the destruction of the free exercise of religion.
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u/tinyelephantsime Jun 25 '12
The Holy Land Experience in Orlando pays no property taxes which is dumb as hell.
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u/der1x Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
People don't lose houses because of taxes, they foreclose because they can't afford the damn thing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
God fucking damnit if you're going to use church buildings use one that was built with loads of money. This building took 40 years to build before Utah was even a state and it was still a mormon settlement.