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appmanga

(1,531 posts)
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 09:25 PM Aug 2025

Video -- The Truth About Christian Nationalism

The American Taliban is willing to put up with the criminality (which also enriches many of them), along with the bigotry (which many of them also embrace and adhere to), the fascism (I'd be repeating myself), and the kakistocracy (because they also tend to be stupid and underqualified) because Trump has been their most forceful vehicle to bring about the "Christian nation" they desire.

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Video -- The Truth About Christian Nationalism (Original Post) appmanga Aug 2025 OP
tax them Be Leave On Aug 2025 #1
"[H]ire employees ... and fail to support the society that enables them." Seeking Serenity Aug 2025 #3
Well done Nigrum Cattus Aug 2025 #2

Be Leave On

(437 posts)
1. tax them
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 10:06 PM
Aug 2025

Just like the deadbeat billionaires, the deadbeat churches should be taxed heavily. They own property, hire employees, collect vast revenues, and fail to support the society that enables them.
They need to be taxed.

Seeking Serenity

(3,324 posts)
3. "[H]ire employees ... and fail to support the society that enables them."
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 05:43 AM
Aug 2025

I'm pretty sure that churches that have compensated non-clergy staff have to comply with federal withholding laws (and state ones where applicable), withhold FICA and Medicare taxes, with respect to those employees.

Just providing some clarification on that discrete point.

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