On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 17:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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.
"Gott ist tot" (God is dead) from a German philosopher. I'm a German, but I don't understand this German sentence from the German link about "Kirchensteuer" (church tax): "Seitdem ist die fiktive Kirchensteuer auf’s Arbeitslosengeld Geschichte." IIUC church still benefits from jobless people by getting church tax, it's just not called church tax. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
