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They are if they don’t pay the taxes that would have been used to help with situations such as this.
Most churches can't keep the lights on. For every LDS or RCC there are a thousand places on the verge of bankruptcy. Every atheist I know makes a big deal about the big players but not one has shown me the raw the numbers that proves that if they paid corporate tax rates it would be mean more than a few more cruise missiles used to blow up weddings in Pakistan.
Proposal: taxes that scale with income... You could call it, I dunno, some sort of income tax.
Income tax is paid by church employees. The thing that isn’t taxed is their profits.
Cool. My employer now pays the bulk of my earnings in stock and corporate perks.
Prayer is not a corporate perk ;)
A car is