They are also one of the major propaganda distribution networks for the Neocon right-wing that purchased the 2024 election. There is only one long-term solution for both of these problems: break the anti-education hold that GOP politicians have over the Red States. We need educated, informed voters.
I'd disagree slightly, all churches are businesses. It's just a business model that is unusual, offering a type of insurance plan for the afterlife that the church itself never has to provide or even prove. I wonder if that's where United Healthcare got their idea...
Remember that business also is based on free labor. Only a few of people at church hold paid positions. With even fewer being paid a living wage with benefits. The rest volunteer their time. It is the ultimate con.
Even better, tax things that aren't churches but call themselves churches and do no charitable work.
If you tax organisations that do charitable work, money that would have been used for charitable work now goes to the grifters that run the Government instead.
I only said all because of the monitoring required. It's either all or none. Every outrageously huge money grubbing church would claim charitable work when the only charity is for the pastor.
Of course, tax authorities in major developed countries have no idea how to implement even mildly complex tax laws or operate computer systems which can work out who is to pay how much. I mean existing tax law in the UK and US is so simple that nobody needs to pass professional exams in it.
Perhaps if these "mega church" morons paid their "tithes" into schools or helpful foundations instead of some religious "wackjobs" coffers the world would be a much safer place...tax the bastards!!!
Or we can all become churches. The definition of religion in law is very nebulous. My house is a house of worship for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. We have spaghetti for dinner at least once a month. Sometimes more. We also have holy days: /1
The late, Anton Szandor LaVey, the founder of the First Church of Satan hated the way churches took advantage of tax exempt status. He chose to voluntarily pay taxes for his coven. Proudly at that.
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If you tax organisations that do charitable work, money that would have been used for charitable work now goes to the grifters that run the Government instead.
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