As long as they stay out of te political arena...they can collect all the money they want. When they want to get involved in politics...then they need to get that tax exempt status yanked out from under them.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: GMoney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:00 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Are Churches Making America Poor? - Newsweek A deficit that's at the lowest it's been in 5 years, by the way, according to an article on read on Yahoo today. As for religion and taxes: Money given freely by a group of people as a collective to serve a similar interest among that group....which is essentially what a "church parish" is, should not be taxed. But they should be closely watched. On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/10/25/churches-religion-taxes.html > > 71 billion a year. That would make quite the dent in the deficit. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368287 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
