Is there any chance the budget will ever include taxing churches and all the fake "religions"?

[BSdetect]

Start with Scientology.

What a revenue pool.

[onenote]

1. No

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Yeaass! I just paid $20 to become an Ordained Minister so I can get tax breaks and grift others!

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But my son knows somebody who did just that!

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[lindysalsagal]

2. People demand to have their personal fairy tales. Everyone else's are false, of course.

[Celerity]

11. +1

The US is under the religious dogma cosh.

[lindysalsagal]

15. Scary. Honestly.

[jimfields33]

3. If you do that, non profits are next.

[madville]

4. Removing tax exempt status would be disastrous politically

Many solid Democratic voters are religious and heavily involved in their local churches.

[Johonny]

5. Not with congress terminally broken

[bearsfootball516]

6. That would not go well.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. No, but you can start your own to get the tax advantages

Just use the church as a shell operation. Learn the skeleton lingo. Get a good accountant and a good lawyer. And you're ready to drain the public financially to fund your operation, support, travel.

[SoCalDavidS]

8. In America? No. nt

[FBaggins]

9. Ever?

Maybe... but don't hold your breath

[nycbos]

12. Not a chance.

It would be a very courageous decision.

[Hortensis]

13. "Chances" are roughly analogous to adequate power in the hands

of liberals fairly consistently. The doctrine of separation of church and state for the protection of people of all beliefs, not excluding the churches themselves, is a liberal creation.

[Dr. Strange]

14. You wouldn't be able to tax churches only, you'd have to tax all nonprofits.

You'd get a lot of revenue, but on the flip side, you'd have churches and other nonprofits being free to advocate for specific candidates. And you wouldn't be able to stop them, because you no longer have the threat of taking away their tax-exempt status.

[Kaleva]

16. Far too little support amongst Dems for that to happen

[LiberatedUSA]

17. All religions are fake.

If it is based on some sort of invisible Harry Potter-like figure in the sky that sometimes grants wishes (prayers) depending on if you’ve been naughty or nice, it has no basis in quantifiable reality.

[luv2fly]

18. "Harry Potter-like"

I don't disagree with you at all, thanks for the laugh!

[LiberatedUSA]

19. Out of curiosity, why start with Scientology?

Cause the story is insane? Nobody out crazies the Bible.

Try this one on for size:

God kills a man’s entire family, extended family and livestock, then inflicts him with disease just to tell the guy in the fiery dungeon “told ya so”.

God sure seems to have human qualities of being goaded.