Sikh U.S. Army captain allowed to wear beard, turban in uniform

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(04-04-2016, 09:29 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Jesus I hope they lift the exemption, and the 12 churches that make money in this country can pay your beloved taxes.

You don't seriously believe that do you?

The Catholic church (for one) is a better ran business than most of the businesses I have been part of.

The Diocese is well in the black.  Most individual churches within it are too now that they have closed and combined so many of them.

It may not be the $71 billion in taxes collected that gets bandied about....but it is crazy that they are exempt.

But then in the Pittsburgh area one of the largest land/property owners is also exempt...and it ain't a church.

Quote:UPMC is Pennsylvania’s largest nongovernmental employer and Allegheny County’s largest property owner, with 656 acres and $1.6 billion in land and buildings. Eighty-six percent of that property is tax-exempt, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette analysis.

If it were not a nonprofit, and thus exempt from paying certain taxes, UPMC would owe the city $20 million more in taxes every year.