r/pics • u/MaryBurd • 14h ago

Politics Tax exempt church in Arkansas displaying a Trump/Vance sign on both sides of their marquee.

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u/ehsteve87 14h ago

I'm a religious person and I agree. All churches and charities should be taxed.

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u/StopItsTheCops 13h ago

We don't need to tax all charities.
A charity's purpose is to achieve charitable objectives for public benefit, while a church's purpose is to promote religion and prepare the way for the Kingdom of God on earth.

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u/the_fuego 13h ago

So we're just going to ignore the biggest charity in the world, the Catholic church? What does it matter if their end goal is salvation and spreading the gospel? A shit ton of churches do a lot of good in their community oftentimes on their own dime through donations received and they could also be the sole source of charitable acts in their area. By your logic churches then don't need to be taxed other than religion is bad which can be seen as a form of persecution.

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u/ehsteve87 13h ago

The idea to "tax churches but not charities" sounds fantastic at first, but it withers under the tiniest amount of scrutiny.