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Yep, another J Young Christian moral superiority

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-churches31jul31,1,2582684.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

Churches Putting Town Out of Business

Stafford, Texas, has 51 tax-exempt religious institutions and wants
no
more: `Somebody's got to pay for police, fire and schools.'

By Lianne Hart, Times Staff Writer
July 31, 2006


STAFFORD, Texas - They are not the words one expects to hear from a
politician or a Southerner, and Leonard Scarcella is both: "Our city
has an excessive number of churches."

Scarcella is mayor of this Houston-area community, which has 51
churches and other religious institutions packed into its 7 square
miles.

The town shares the blame for creating an exploitable situation.
The churches share the blame for exploiting it.

How does the right to free exercise of religion which shows that taxes
are unnecessary have any blame upon it?

Well, I don't think that churches can exempt themselves from police,
fire, and EMT services. Instead, they take advantage of those expensive
utilities and pay nothing in return.

I don't think they would if they needed them,

Huh? They DO need them, and they DON'T pay for them.

and their members more than likely pay taxes.

And in return their houses and persons receive the services.

And, speaking of taxes, do you think people shouldn't rely upon the
services they are paying to fund?

People should rely on them. But the church isn't paying for any,

and still relies on them.

That's unfair.

Sweet for them, in a parasitical sort of way, I suppose.

I can see your point there. Currently, Church workers who draw wages are
taxed.
If we were to eliminate property taxes then this unequal protection would
cease to exist.

Yes. But property taxes have not been eliminated.\

Major budget item, I know, but it isn't like it is impossible to
eliminate property taxes.

Granted. But that's not the current state of affairs.

Property taxation seems usurious to me.

How you feel about it isn't the issue.

I assume they use the eminent domain provision couples with the
'constitutional authority" to levy property taxes to fund these
'essential' services.

I suppose so.

I still do not like property taxes because, imo, they do not fulfill the
4th Amendment's provision to be safe and secure in our possesions and
effects against unreasonable search and seizure well enough.

And that may very well be a valid viewpoint.

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Well, I don't think that churches can exempt themselves from police,
fire, and EMT services. Instead, they take advantage of those expensive
utilities and pay nothing in return.

I don't think they would if they needed them,

Huh? They DO need them, and they DON'T pay for them.

and their members more than likely pay taxes.

And in return their houses and persons receive the services.

And, speaking of taxes, do you think people shouldn't rely upon the
services they are paying to fund?