~Do as Jesus did: Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
~Do you really want the state in the business of licensing legitimate churches by granting them tax exempt status?
~Further gives people the impression that religion is all about money.
~In an environment where churches are not taxed, you never know if a sermon or educational choice is made because it’s the right one or the one that won’t raise eyebrows at the IRS.
~Allowing the IRS to indirectly censor the church is stupid. The only way to prevent that is to give them what they threaten.
~If you were a scam artist, where would you go to find sheep to fleece?
~It would free up churches to become as political as they want to be, endorsing politicians, causes, and taking sides in electoral issues.
~Tax-exempt status forces pastors who do make political statements into absurd contortions about it being merely their own opinion and not that of the religious organization they represent.
~You can’t say that church and state should be separate and then grant churches a special tax status.
Links on Tax-Exempt Churches:
501(C) by Wikipedia
IRS exemption requirements by IRS.gov
Should churches be tax exempt? by Elca.org
501C3 facts by Hushmoney.org
Tax-exempt churches by Atheism.about.com
Church could lose tax-exempt status by USA Today
Separation of church and state by Washington Post
Should churches be tax-exempt? by Gather.com
Unfair subsidy by Sullivan-county.com
No comments:
Post a Comment