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IRS!!

And...oh, send tax bills to the other 1,999 preachers who decided to break the law by endorsing from their tax-exempt pulpits. Just think: we could reduce the deficit by HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS if not BILLIONS every year by making these jackals pay their fair share!

I don't want to tell the "faithful" that they can't fork over their hard earned dough to these scam artists, any more than I want them telling me I can't hand over mine to the local casino if I want.

However, I believe the days of them not paying taxes on these hauls needs to be OVER. I am in a business where I get to see what certain people make, and it is scary.

You're gonna ruin my retirement plans.

I think you will be fine.

They just have to give up the gift of not paying taxes which is what it is as there is nothing in the constitution written that requires they be given tax free status.

Just what we need....a mouthpiece from God that defies not only the Constitution but the Frickin Tax Code....what will come next Church accounts in the Cayman Islands with COMPLETE tax exemption? Republicans are really solidifying their stupidity. Hold on I see an infomercial from Mike Huckabee!!!!! Onward Christian Soldiers ......(you know the rest of the verses)

our financial mess. I don't see any reason for any of them to be non taxed. The repiglicans are big on letting the members of the church provide welfare rather than the govt.(which would fall way short of the need) so I am sure that members of the church can step up and donate an amount greater than or equal to the amount of the taxation.

It's a win/win.

Tax the churches.

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It would be good for them to have a huge file of these after the election, if possible even then, but it's not likely. If Romney gets elected, he probably will short staff or eliminate the IRS, EPA, FEC, etc. to go for full privatization.

Elections will be pretty much as thing of the past, JMHO. They've shown they intend to disenfranchise broad swaths of the American population from voting, because it won't matter with the government drowned in the bathtub and all services turned over to them. That's who we'll pay and answer to. This is the trend we're on right now. Yes, it can get worse.

This is the most crucial election of my lifetime, watching the trends over the years. We are on the verge of theocracy. Few voices oppose it in the public media. We are making the choice that will rule millions of lives, and cost millions of lives here and abroad, with Romney and Ryan, Grover Nordquist and the Koch brothers calling the shots. They have stolen much of the Commons, but we are busy arguing about other things.

One barrier I see in stopping this, if Obama is elected and this catastrophe put on hold (and I say only on hold, since the right wingers are not going to stop) is this one thing. Although it's clearly illegal, there is a long tradition since the civil rights era in which Reverends Abernathy, Jackson, Sharpton and MLK, all spoke from pulpits.

They made progressive history by organizing the believers to resist the tyranny of the plutocrats of those days. Now we have pulpits doing the opposite of that, but the precedent remains.

And since they are putting videos online, we only need to look up their addresses.

I've always said I'm never going to a church where the pastor wears a tie. Two weeks ago in fact I was at a church where the guy giving the sermon was wearing a hoodie.

It's sort of the core of it, isn't it? The rich going to hell, I mean. Mitch certainly has his ticket punched straight through express first class private car.

for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.
... that was Jesus talking.

If they believe that stuff, why don't they believe that stuff? Strange.

Tax'm ta hell.

income taxes and property taxes, period.

because of Bush's faith based initiative we actually subsidize the faith industry.. can't understand why everyone just ignores this on first amendment grounds..

promoting politics from the pulpit. They now more or less are getting paid to do so.

I would recommend they work up a sermon based on Romans 13, vs 1 and 2.

I would also recommend they study tax law, rather than challenge the law.

by claiming to "My endorsement will be Jesus" but he is going to "vote for Rmoney". So the coward apparently still had enough fear of the IRS to not say "I endorse Rmoney". Alot of sound and fury signifying nothing.

between freedom of speech and taxable assets.

they would not take even the tiniest risk at losing their most prized possession.

and that includes many churches in urban areas.

I have no problem with that if he had then said that each person needs to vote their conscience. Unfortunately he didn't say that. But he probably didn't cross a line that would get the IRS interested either. Still, had I been in that church and had a chance to respond, I would have voiced my dissent.

The only deductions should be for secular charitable works with non-church members.

Sing to the tune of Give me that Old Tyme Religion...