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zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 02:09 PM Original message |
How to balance the budget: Revoke tax-free status of churches abusing 501(c)(3) status |
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VeraAgnes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. I dream of the day to tax these crooks! |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yeah, instead of pussy footing around the subject |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Hey Boss |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. My sweet old Grandma |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. Apart from the political stuff |
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zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. I bet there aren't too many rusty cars in the parking lot |
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tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
24. I agree wtih you 100% |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. OK with me, but why limit the action to churches? |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
7. I wonder just how many people would flock to the Right Wing churches |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
8. Word x 1,000. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
9. Wholeheartedly agree. The problems lie with the execution, however. |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
11. You know Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton |
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RollWithIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 10:25 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I don't think many underrstand the influence that urban churches had on this election.... |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 11:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. i think supporting causes is allowed hence even though we want to strip |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I don't really see where in the First Amendment language |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:25 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. seperation of church and state. it is not that the catholic church will be arrested |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:15 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Nowhere in the First Amendment does it say that churches can't meddle in state affairs.. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:22 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. does the first amendment guarantee tax exempt status to religious organizations? |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:27 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. That's a court decision that taxation is an undue burden |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. exactly, so first amendment violation in relation to tax exempt status |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 12:50 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. I think a reasonable argument can be made that |
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RollWithIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. Actually, under Obama religious funding will shift to the cities |
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mucifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
16. I have no problem with that. But, I am a hospice nurse. I've gone to funerals on |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
17. hey, at least tax their money making ventures. catholic university here owns |
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madmadmad (368 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
18. tax the f*ck outta 'em! |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
25. Why limit it to the churches? |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
26. Idiocy!!! !You can't impose the death penalty on a buck-fifty crime. |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
28. AMEN! |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
29. AAAAAMMMEEENNN !!! |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
30. Wonderful, the church of the pedophiles is smearing Barack ! |
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