Jen Bou Blog: What if we stimulated the economy by taxing religious institutions?

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Only ones that make major bucks of course. Let's discuss...

Anonymous said...: I think it would stimulate the economy about the same as anything else in that regard... it would stifle it not stimulate. As the cost of doing something goes up (without that money going to another service like people getting paid to service a car), the amount of people that will do it goes down. Thus those two factors together will rendering that economy (regardless what organization or sector) to a slower or negative path.

As such taxing something never stimulate. It only makes other people feel good about "sticking it to the {fill in the blank}".; February 25, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Jen Bou said...: Great point. I think we vote democrat or republican based on what sectors we want to 'stick it to'.; February 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Devereaux73 said...: I don't know. I tend to vote for the group that doesn't want to proactively legislate separation of equality for me.

Perhaps churches should be taxed if they are active politically, like the Catholic church has been in trying to sway its membership to vote Republican or be denied communion; or like the Mormon church who funded the Prop 8 battle in California to the tune of >$8 Million.; March 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM

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