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Tax All The Churches ... (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
May 2021
OP
Bezos alone has roughly 5 times the wealth, Harvard's 41bn usd versus Bezos 200bn
Celerity
May 2021
#7
You couldn't constitionally tax churches but not do the same to other non-profits
Jose Garcia
May 2021
#5
-misanthroptimist
(811 posts)1. That last one is especially true.
Were I to recount my "career" no one under the age of 50 or so would believe it for an instant. It would be hard to believe even for those over 50.
(Note: White male.)
jimfields33
(15,850 posts)2. Tax all non profits too
If were going to have things that address human necessities then were going to have to tax non profits, corporations and the wealthy.
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)4. Imagine taxing Harvard University's Trust Fund.
Holy moley.
Celerity
(43,446 posts)7. Bezos alone has roughly 5 times the wealth, Harvard's 41bn usd versus Bezos 200bn
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)9. Yeah, but he's not a nonprofit.
Harvard is.
Jose Garcia
(2,598 posts)5. You couldn't constitionally tax churches but not do the same to other non-profits
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. If we did, they'd just make sure their collections and expenditures produce no/little taxable income
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)6. Every time I see
a massive, brand new fancy church i think to myself, "Good thing they aren't taxed. How else would they be able to afford to build this disgustingly obscene house of worship that Jesus would find morally repugnant?"
JuJuChen
(2,215 posts)8. I agree, tax churches and non-profits like the rest of us folks