Ending God's Tax Exempt Status

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

A church can qualify as a charitable organization by providing a number of certain services, not just by giving a certain percentage of their income to other charitable organizations.

Also, a church has to be run as a non-profit to even be considered for tax-exempt status.

Run as non-profit and existing for growth to spread a "message" (man that was hard to type) are contradictions.
I feel the ONLY organizations that should be tax exempt are charitable ones that meet a specific standard for a minimum amount used for administrative/infrastructure costs annually.
Yes, that includes private schools. Profit is profit, as for churches, growth is profit.

[9th Engineer]

So every organization that spreads a set of ideas and seeks to enlarge its audience is therefore, by default, a for-profit enterprise? And what would your suggested minimum amount be? Are we talking a percentage or total funds delivered?

Originally Posted by 9th Engineer

So every organization that spreads a set of ideas and seeks to enlarge its audience is therefore, by default, a for-profit enterprise? And what would your suggested minimum amount be? Are we talking a percentage or total funds delivered?

Are they taking in money for growth? If yes then they are a business.
The percentage is toward charity alone for tax exempt status.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Do away with $8,022,000,000 in agricultural subsidies.
And with $23,000,000,000 in foreign aid.
Don't forget the $418,000,000,000 in Medicare/Medicaid.
Not to mention the billions and billions in lost taxes on forest, farm and open space land that don't pay the same rate as Joe Homeowner.

Now who else can we spew a little hate on?