Europeans, having dumped God and religion in favor of socialism, now look to tax religion in order to save them from the ravages of their chosen idolatry.
European countries, desperate over failing economies and mountains of socialistic debt are now targeting Church property, long exempt from taxation, as a potential source of revenue.
September 17, 2012 at 4:33 am
The Catholic Church is held in trust for all generations. In the present, the Catholic Church parishioners have paid their taxes as citizens. The cost to the individual parishioner, who is also a taxpaying-citizen, would be two taxes, one vote. This issue is about removing the Person of God from His creation, thereby, destroying the only hope the human being has for eternal life.
September 17, 2012 at 2:39 pm
If the Catholic Church, held in trust for all generations, is taxed, double taxing the citizens as parishioners, the Catholic Church will be catapulted into the state as a tax paying entity, a corporation, no longer a non-profit, but a for-profit entity with all the legalized power to act as a sovereign person who is a citizen, campaign, run for office, impose virtue, virginity, and morality by law, perhaps even to write tax law.
A corporation is an artificial legal person, incorporated through law to be vitiated by law. The Catholic Church is a real PERSON, the Body of Jesus Christ, Who is above the state law because the Body of Jesus Christ is the law, the laws of nature and nature’s GOD…from the Declaration of Independence.
September 18, 2012 at 8:30 am
It seems the socialists over there really are starting to run out of other
people's money…