04-04-2016, 10:05 AM
(04-04-2016, 09:50 AM)GMDino Wrote: 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.
Every individual church/parish is it's own exemption. Our church is in one of the wealthier areas of the city, and we are happy when we break even. Perhaps we should close our schools and dump all our kids in the public school system and let them build buildings and hire teachers to accomodate them.
They are non-profit organizations. Why should they be treated differently?
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