Should The Mormon Church Pay Taxes? (...
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| Fri, 09-19-2008 - 12:56am |
Should The Mormon Church Pay Taxes? (See 1st post.)
- No. Don't tax them.
- Yes. Tax them.
You will be able to change your vote.

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If you lived in California where there is an initiative on the ballot which would change the State Constitution so that gay marriage went from being legal (as it is now) to illegal, how would you vote?
Rose
By the same token, it would take some burden off everyone else, because they wouldn't be paying the taxes the churches avoid.
If churches had to pay all taxes (e.g., real estate taxes, sales taxes, income taxes) on everything but their actual charitable works, we'd all have either lower taxes or less of a deficit.
Also, to the question someone asked earlier about "double taxation" - remember, the money you give to churches is deductible to you, therefore, it's not being double-taxed - right now, it's not being taxed at all.
That is not necessarily true - it assumes that any money the churches paid would stay in the treasury - or that it would offset spending elsewhere. How much would actually go into the treasury? There currently does not seem to be a link between what the federal government spends and how much we are taxed, considering the enormous debt we are currently holding, the tax cuts during the Bush administration, and the expensive wars we are currently involved in. I still don't understand what economist encourages a decrease in revenue (tax cut) and an increase in expenditures (expensive war) - seems like a recipe for disaster. But then I live on a strictly cash basis.
Sounds good, but what facts do you have to support the statement?
There's always the issue of whether the government has any fiscal discipline... but, if they're getting a dollar from a church, that's one less dollar they need to get from you or me.
Then it becomes our responsibility to make sure the government doesn't spend more than it gets by voting out the profligate congresscritters
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