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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Tax Supported" Churches.
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 18:01:54 EDT
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In article <569@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:

>Look, the issue here is very simple.

>Does it cost the government money to fight fires, maintain the streets,
>patrol neighborhoods to discourage blatant criminality, and pick up the
>garbage?  Obviously it does.

>Do churches benefit from these services to the same extent secular
>organizations do?  Obviously they do.

>Do churches pay for them?  Obviously they don't.

>Do secular organizations pay for them?  Obviously they do.

>Are churches being supported by the taxes paid by secular organizations?
>Obviously they are.

This is an argument for taxing ALL organizations, non-profit or otherwise.
There are certainly lots of non-profit organizations which can burn down
too, after all.  What's magic about churches?

Charley Wingate