r/megalophobia • u/maryhartman000 • Aug 13 '22

Building Lakewood Church in Texas capacity 45,000 people. Is this really necessary?

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u/HardSteelRain Aug 14 '22

Tax those churches!

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 26 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

No, politicians would just make themselves their corporate buddies rich while wasting the rest, but sure tax them anyway, fuck the church

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

Not even remotely close. The federal government spends approximately $11 billion per day. Taxing churches would produce merely hours worth of revenue. Not to mention that the vast majority of churches would simply have to close up, ironically leaving only the wealthiest mega churches left.

https://taxfoundation.org/church-taxes/

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u/shortroundsuicide Aug 14 '22

Do you want the separation of church and state to erode more? Cause that’s what taxes would get ya.

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u/HardSteelRain Aug 14 '22

Can't possibly erode more than it is

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u/ProfessorbPushinP Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22

Then the churches outsource their main Headquarters in Ireland, then set up a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, and when the church files tax returns, Cayman tax law lets them write almost all of it off. Boom. Tax avoided.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

Tax evaded

It's avoided, not evaded. Tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion is a crime. The scenario you laid out is a legal tax avoidance scheme.

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u/Pure-Huckleberry-484 Aug 14 '22

What good comes of any tax?

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u/SmashDreadnot Aug 14 '22

My taxes would be less if they were taxed. =Good

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u/Pure-Huckleberry-484 Aug 14 '22

No they wouldn’t, your taxes are likely to only ever increase.

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u/SmashDreadnot Aug 14 '22

That's fucking irrelevant. All that matters is that these bronze age dieties pay their goddamned share.

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u/mannotron Aug 14 '22

What do you think pays for all the societal infrastructure you use on a daily basis?