But what's so different with that an a next door shop or shoe repair place. Their support structure may be the same, but do not have the fallback of no property taxes.
What I dislike are those huge mega-churches that have 5, 10, or 20 thousand members. The church puts up a very large building, typically more than one, get all the infrastructure support, but pays nothing for it. At the same time the neighbourhood suffers from vastly increased traffic, na d the congestion and additional pollution etc. Essentially that church is getting a free ride on the backs of its neighbours. larry >I'm not so sure about that. There has to be a limit. When your thinking of >taxing religious property, your usually thinking of the church. A single, >monolithic organization with huge financial holdings. Your not thinking of the >little synagogues that dot Brooklyn who's only financial support are its >members. > >> I'm all for taxing all religious properties. A few years ago Jerry >> Falwell tried to claim that a travel agency he owned was a church >> endeavor and therefore should not be taxed. I've been watching this >> mega-church go up at this one intersection nearby. The road its on >> and the surrounding area cannot really support that much traffic that >> this thing will generate. Unfortunately the county board of >> supervisors completely caved in on this one >> >> larry >> >> >we really should start taxing the land holdings of the catholic >>church :) We >> >could wipe out the federal budget deficet easy >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:09 PM >> >Subject: Re: Warning: This may offend if religious >> > >> > >> >> At the same time its been the Christian fundamentalists who've been >> >> whining that they've been discriminated against, while all the time >> >> demanding that they get special exemptions so that they can >> >> discriminate against other groups. >> >> >> >> larry >> >> >> >> >Matthew Small wrote: >> >> > >> >> >>I'm not upset, I just want the respect that every other >>lifestyle seems >> >> >>to enjoy. It seems like bashing Christians for their faith >>is ok these >> >> >>days. >> >> >> >> >> >I try not to limit it just to Christians! :) >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
