On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 03:44 +1300, somebody off-list wrote something about the church discussion, IMO it belongs to d-community-offtopic ;).
Yes, but the German church does a "good job", just this Tebartz van-Elst [1] made a mistake. When I have a job I don't pay church tax, because I'm not member of a church. Many Germans are not member of a church, so many people don't pay church taxes. However, 1. church has a lobby, e.g. the regnant christian party, they also get money from "normal" taxes + 2. they get church taxes from unemployment benefit/social benefits from everybody who is jobless. IOW when I'm jobless a part from the unemployment benefit/social benefits is lost by church taxes. The more Germans are jobless, the better for the church. Free slave workers, regarding to the 1€ job law and more church taxes. I'll read the links about your country later, perhaps you should forward them to the list. [1] Suspended by the pope, yes, but it's said that he will get a better job soon. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
