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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChurches are fuming over being taxed by Republicans and Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/30/1776800/-Churches-are-fuming-over-being-taxed-by-Republicans-and-Trump?detail=emaildkreThere was a bit of news recently that, although not necessarily good, is certainly worth celebrating if for no other reason than the religious right is up in arms over what they regard as an attack on their religious freedom. In addition, even more reason to marvel is that the attack came at the hands of Congressional Republicans and the religious rights messianic hero Dumb Don Trump. This particular attack entails a little known reform in Trumps highly touted GOP tax legislation that includes a first ever tax on churches and other non-profits. It is a brief good time moment in what is now a horrifically hideous country run by a fascist pig with theocrats and white supremacists supporting his regime.
To remark that the various church leaders are dumbfounded and irate over being taxed would be a monumental understatement. Literally hundreds of church leaders are struggling to comprehend why Republicans would dare treat them like every other American and business, and why their Republican facilitators stabbed them in the back in secret. Actually, since the GOP tax reform legislation was conceived and crafted in secret by the Heritage Foundation, and Republicans voted en masse to enrich the wealthy and corporations without even perusing that legislation, few in Congress were aware of the tax on the church.
However, this tax outrage is not the kind of tax regular people bemoan; it is a minor tax on the various freebies church and some non-profit organizations employees receive. Still, the concept of religious organizations being required to contribute anything in the way of a tax has infuriated church leaders who vehemently insist that their tax exemption is sacrosanct, and non-negotiable.
The gist of the hidden tax atrocity simply requires churches, hospitals, and other historically tax-exempt organizations to begin paying a 21 percent tax on some types of fringe benefits they provide their employees.
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Oops! This is hysterical and demonstrates what can find its way into a bill because Legislators often don't actually read the bills before voting on them.
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Churches are fuming over being taxed by Republicans and Trump (Original Post)
avebury
Jul 2018
OP
Now that the door is open, let's start taxing the shit out of them. I'm sure Trump will tax more.
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2018
#5
I have no doubt they'll reverse this for churches before November. They can't afford to
catbyte
Jul 2018
#8
It also affects colleges, orchestras and other historically tax-exempt organizations.
progressoid
Jul 2018
#13
Initech
(99,914 posts)1. I've been saying this since day one:
When you fall for a con artist, don't be surprised when you get conned.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)3. Rule #1 of the con, you cannot con an honest man
C Moon
(12,188 posts)10. I know, right? What the hell do these idiots--church and otherwise--expect?
Trump is a well known lying, cheating ass. He will treat EVERYONE accordingly.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,481 posts)2. Yet these same people want MORE religion in Government.
Talk about being HYPOCRITICAL. Serves them right.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,297 posts)4. Karma has bitten them in their collective posteriors!
Too bad.
TheBlackAdder
(28,073 posts)5. Now that the door is open, let's start taxing the shit out of them. I'm sure Trump will tax more.
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For Dems, that would be a like touching a third rail to mention it.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)6. The Utah Church will get clobbered big time.
Loving it my friends. Several Hundred Companies ran as a non profit.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)7. They should have stayed out of politics.
catbyte
(34,170 posts)8. I have no doubt they'll reverse this for churches before November. They can't afford to
alienate their most reliable voters. I'm sure they'll keep the rule in place for charitable organizations, though, because they secretly despise "those do-gooders."
djacq
(1,633 posts)9. Irony... They gave Orange Clown a Mulligan... Orange Clown taxes them.
LMFAO
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)11. Render unto Caesar
roamer65
(36,739 posts)12. Just wait until the tariffs start biting.
I am loving the heavy duty dose of schadenfreude.
progressoid
(49,825 posts)13. It also affects colleges, orchestras and other historically tax-exempt organizations.
While it's great to get a little back from the churches, this is hurting a lot of other good organizations.