On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 17:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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.
The German Wiki calls me a liar, my tax bill says that my claim is true. And another German link claims, this changed in 2005: http://www.kirchensteuerinfo.de/kirchensteuer-in-der-arbeitslosigkeit-2112 I'm clueless. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
