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Simple solution to a portion of our budget deficit: Audit religion

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posted on Oct, 10 2010 @ 07:48 PM
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Not necessarily. People do have a right to freely exercise their religion and taxing such an organization categorically could inhibit that. If you are a Catholic in an area with only a small number of members the taxation might be enough to prevent your church from continuing its operation.

If you're a Catholic and go to a church that asks for donations that are upwards of $3000 for a single prayer lamp (yes, personally experienced this one when with my girlfriend's family at a church in Florida...I got dragged their because I'm too reasonable to start an argument over it. I just read the Bible and laughed), that's a different story.

There's a difference between 'free exercise' and 'taking advantage of the system'.



 
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