Should churches start paying taxes?

Why are churches tax exempt?

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Depends on how much money they bring in and what they are using the funds for.

LDE

The lines are drawn in the sand, the American people are alive and awake, well most anyway. Kick it and call names, Let the Freedom Ring

Well, I think churches should pay taxes because they collect millions and millons of dollars a year.  They are the riches organization in the world.

How much will you pay to have faith in life?

The nature of anything can be known from the universal laws of nature! You will never know anything whose nature cannot be known from the universal laws of nature. - Theory of sivashanmugam at http://tiny.cc/newtheory

absolutely !!!

"Winning"

 
  
 
 
 

 Churches  on the corners are closing the doors . No I have not been to the Vatican, but know ones that have, they live on Donations, as do the Churches and Jewish Temples here..they have dried up, just as the Economy has, and with them go the people..

Tax them and say good bye to them..
 
THINK..

Delilah cut Sampson's hair and forced him into servitude and demise, powerful is woman, strong and vigilant, she brought her men off battlefields to carry them on her back to safety or to burial

 Tax churches like any other place of meaningless entertainment. 

Extraordinarily claims require extraordinary evidence. The god hypothesis has failed for lack of evidence.. Public policy should be informed by science and pragmatism rather than theology and religious dogma.

Churches live on donations.

Delilah cut Sampson's hair and forced him into servitude and demise, powerful is woman, strong and vigilant, she brought her men off battlefields to carry them on her back to safety or to burial

Churches live on donations.

Delilah cut Sampson's hair and forced him into servitude and demise, powerful is woman, strong and vigilant, she brought her men off battlefields to carry them on her back to safety or to burial

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