Wednesday, October 11, 2006

"Holy" tax benefits--what a concept!!

Have you ever looked at your paystub and felt enraged by the huge amount of taxes taken from your hard-earn money? You might even resent having your tax money being spent on things like the war in the middle east or on social programs like public assistance for people poorer than you. Taxation is required to cover the functions of our society--whether or not you agree with the individual programs. But when religious organizations abuse their tax exemption perks like this, it pisses me off to no end. (basically the news article covers examples of religious groups claiming tax breaks on things like luxury housing commonuities, etc.) These are probably the same people who oppose other people's right to marry, sex education for schoolchildren, abortion rights because it does not agree with their "spirituality" and "family value". Well, if they want to legally cram their religions down other people's throat, they should not be tax-exempt in any thing they do/own. Worse yet, when they abuse their tax breaks like this, I wish all their basic rights were stripped off and they all got sent to jail.

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