tax the church

[fredtoast]

(06-06-2019, 08:54 PM)bfine32 Wrote: If we tax them should we expect a downturn in the charity they provide?

We shouldn't because what they give away in actual charity would be tax deductable.

Whenever a discussion on charity comes up certain people claim conservatives give more to charity.  The fact is that they give more money to buy jet airplanes for the preachers and to build expensive clubhouses to meet every Sunday and they call that "charity".

The Catholic churchs owns billions of dollars of expensive commercial real estate.  At one time they owned the property that Yankee Stadium was built on.  The Mormon church owns millions of dollars commercial property and farmland.  These have nothing to do with "charity".  They are just for profit businesses.