2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Time to tax the churches! [View all]JustAnotherGen
(38,058 posts)I don't agree with that!
I don't want the state to tell the Churches, Temples, Fellowships, Synagogues what to do: EVEEEEER.
You can ask for the state to tax the individual Religious Institution itself (example closest to me is a Temple serving the Hindu Community) at minimum from a 'property tax' perspective.
There's already a roadmap for it. My husband's country - Italy. It actually provided tax RELIEF to home owners in Italy this year by its implementation. We saw a marked difference in our properties abroad.
I would love it in NJ. We have some of the highest property taxes in the country. It would certainly help to offset ours.
But I absolutely do not want a bunch of religious right wingnuts telling a bunch of Hindus or Bhuddists what to do. They can go hang. We don't want to open that door up - because you watch and see if my Unitarian Universalist fellowship doesn't get shut down by the bastards.
By the way- we fly rainbow flags in our community. So come on home.