• greenskye@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    My local church puts out big signs in front telling you what to vote for. Regularly see cops attend that church. No one cares

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      The police don’t enforce tax regulations. The IRS has its own people for that.

      Would you expect an IRS auditor to pull someone over for speeding? Of course not, that’s ridiculous.

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    the irs already knows that line is violated constantly. unfortunately, they don’t have the resources or the kahunas to go after the churches that do this. there’s way too many (like most of them, probably), and “going after churches” would be a political shitstorm regardless of the constitutional validity of such “persecution”

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    are there any examples of this ever working? I’d like to be wrong but I don’t think this works or has ever worked

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    Churches should be tax liable anyway, regardless of whether they tell you how to vote. Why are they exempt, but other businesses aren’t? Or rather, why are other business tax liable when churches aren’t?

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    I’ve sent them photographs of a local church with “Vote Trump” on the placard out front. Nothing happened.