I see someone has tossed out the usual canard against Islam, yet studiously avoided mentioning “the religion of ‘the prince of peace’”. FYI, both religions currently have groups practicing or advocating female mutilation, pedophilia, homosexual execution, and slavery.
The Johnson amendment is in Trump’s cross hairs because his bigoted base hates the way it prevents them from ramming their own religion down everyone else’s throat.
A year ago, I would have disagreed adamantly with such a prediction, but then I also would have disagreed that there was a possibility that the electorate included enough America-hating fucksticks for the king of America-hating fucksticks to pick up a single EV.
So . . . the border wall is just the wall of separation between Church and State, re-purposed?
I honestly would not mind chu-… religious organizations… being forced to pay taxes on their holdings, but that’s probably because I know that for every dollar that they don’t pay towards this country’s infrastructure, some fraction of it you and I do.
I don’t think its fair that religion gets a free ride off of the backs of citizens who are struggling. Religion is something that can be practiced for free at home. To have huge buildings, properties, schools,
a paid staff of Og-assistants and Spiritual Leaders (complete with hokey costumes) and golden idols/toilets to pray at is somebody’s Luxury.
Like any luxury, it should be Taxed.
That’s my opinion… but I’m not sure if your opinion above it would agree or disagree with it.
As for the JA… yes I’m sure this action repealing it will work towards trying to shove religion up… shove it down… well, its trying shove religion somewhere.
It should be repealed. It’s not enforced because the authorities are scared to enforce it because they’d lose in court and it would be repealed by the judiciary. They want the chilling effect of its existence, rather than the ugliness of actual enforcement.
I worked with a 501(c)3 organization before … it was a museum … the tax forms were similar enough to normal tax forms, such that revenue minus expenses equals earnings … the difference was that these earnings were not distributed to the owners … it was used strictly to acquire new material for the museum … no individual benefited from that money, so which individual do we tax?
I run my business as a sole proprietor, as such my business pays zero income taxes, not one penny … at the bottom of my business tax form is my earnings … this number is then transferred over to my personal tax forms … and the taxes due calculated on my personal tax form … and I have to pay those taxes with my personal funds …
I can put up a sign saying we should destroy the US Federal government, the museum cannot unless it agrees to pay taxes …