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- From: lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US (Lance A. Brown)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism,talk.religion.misc,alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Religious Taxation (was: Madeleine Murray O'Hare)
- Message-ID: <7H1wXB1w165w@circle.raleigh.nc.us>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 04:18:53 GMT
- References: <76FuXB1w164w@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- Organization: The Full Circle BBS, Raleigh NC - DOS/Waffle 1.65
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- emd@oneb.almanac.bc.ca writes:
-
- > > Lance A. Brown (lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US) wrote:
- > > : This point has been covered before. Succinctly, the power to tax an
- > > : organization is a power to destroy it. I agree that churches should pay
- > > : any fees levied to provide services such as fire and police protection th
- > > : cover the whole community and are charged to the _whole_ community. Any
- > > : other kind of taxation provides too much power to destroy a religion by
- > > : taxing it into oblivion.
- > >
- >
- >
- > Nobody, as far as I know, is asking for churches or religious organizations
- > to pay EXTRA taxes over and above what everyone else payes. What we'd like
- > to see is the ending of the AVOIDANCE of churches and religious businesses
- > paying the SAME taxes we all have to pay. Their tax exempt status costs the
- > rest of us a hell of a lot of money, as we have to make up for these
- > free-loaders.
-
- I agree. I do not like to see churches and religious organizations go tax
- free, nor do I think they should be taxed any harder than anyone else, but
- my point still stands. The power to tax something _IS_ a power to destroy
- that thing.
-
- Someone else mentioned that attempting to tax a religious organization out
- of existence is unconstitutional. And it is. But I do not want to give
- those goofs in Washington D.C., or anywhere else in our country, the power
- to tax religious organizations because SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, maybe in a place
- like Colorado Springs is becoming, WILL try to destroy a religious
- organization they do not like by over-taxing it even if it is
- unconstitutional.
-
- Lance
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