Since it is tax season, all U.S taxpayers should call out all of the deadbeats that ride for free which include giant corporations like GM and United Airlines which this year, will pay no taxes. The list should as include the many churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and whatever you call the place where Scientologists meet. There are over 300,000 religious congregations in this country that pay no tax: No federal, state or local; No income, sales or property. Plus, they own 600 billion dollars in property. Like St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York. If you sell cheap sweaters like they do at Forever 21, you pay taxes. But if you are selling the invisible product of eternal....whatever, no taxes. So, to recap, Forever 21, taxes. Forever 33, no taxes.
Scientology founder Ron Hubbard once said that " The only way to make any real money in this world was to start a religion," and even though the one he started only has about 30,000 members, it owns billions in real estate tax scot-free and that makes me hopping mad.
The Supreme Court of the United States really needs to take a case about taxing churches because it has not done that since 1970. Since then, religion has become much less popular, especially with younger people. To them, religion is the new pubic hair. 35 percent of millennials want nothing to do with it, and the rest worship an ancient Jew born over 2000 years ago, Bernie Sanders. And it's not just millennials, the atheists, agnostics and anti-religionists are now the 2nd biggest denomination in America right behind evangelicals. We're 22.8 percent. That means almost a quarter of us in America are being forced to subsidize a myth that we're not buying into.
If we levy sin taxes on things that are bad to get people to stop doing them, then why, in heaven name, don't we tax religion? A sexist, homophobic magic act that has been used to justify everything from genital mutilation to genocide. You wanna raise the tax on tobacco so kids don't get cancer, okay, but let's raise one on Sunday school so they don't get stupid. Americans are losing their religion because they're catching on that religion does much more harm than good. Who enabled child sex abuse for centuries? What's the common thread between ISIS, AQI, Boko Haram, and most other terrorist groups in the world? Who's behind the law in Mississippi that says that Mississippi now can not, among other things, force a baker to make a cake for a gay wedding. Because in Mississippi, if you don't put it in the right hole, you don't get cake. Speaking of cake, it is the same religious freedom crowd that was able to pass a law in Indiana a couple of years ago that allowed restaurants to refuse to serve gay people as Jesus would have wanted. Ah yes, sweet, sweet religious freedom; free at last to eat the potato skins here at the Flapjack Hut without some gay lord forcing his penis in our good Christian food and turning it gay. You gay people hungry? Well, you should have thought of that before you embarked on your life of satanic perversions. Next time have sex in a vagina, and if you take a picture of it; bring it in to Huddle House and get a free drink.
