My local church puts out big signs in front telling you what to vote for. Regularly see cops attend that church. No one cares
The police don’t enforce tax regulations. The IRS has its own people for that.
Would you expect an IRS auditor to pull someone over for speeding? Of course not, that’s ridiculous.
I don’t expect an IRS auditor will put their career on the line to tax a church, either. That’s a third rail for a government employee. And imagine how loudly the Republicans will squawk.
I don’t even expect my local PD to pull anyone over for speeding. They don’t do shit.
Unless they’re Black drivers who don’t even have to be speeding.
All these church regular attendees are constantly being told what to do with their lives. “No abortion, no lgbt”, etc. I would say, even if they were not told who to vote for explicitly, they are still being told who to vote for implicitly.
(Not saying what they doing is right, just saying how this whole religion thing works)
Churches should be tax liable anyway, regardless of whether they tell you how to vote. Why are they exempt, but other businesses aren’t? Or rather, why are other business tax liable when churches aren’t?
aren’t most non-profits free from taxation?
the irs already knows that line is violated constantly. unfortunately, they don’t have the resources or the kahunas to go after the churches that do this. there’s way too many (like most of them, probably), and “going after churches” would be a political shitstorm regardless of the constitutional validity of such “persecution”
The word you’re looking for is cajones. Also, capitalization exists for a reason.
Nope, in that context the word is cojones. Balls.
Thanks, my spelling was a bit off. 🤙🏼
Funnily enough, kahunas could feasibly work in that context; it translates to someone with a lot of authority in Hawaiian.
and “going after churches” would be a political shitstorm regardless of the constitutional validity of such “persecution”
Say that again. No one likes the IRS. Imagine how little it would take to spin this. In this corner you have a soulless government agency that all of us have had to deal with on and in the other corner you have a church, the institution that generally is well liked, being “attacked” because the pastor expressed their first amendment rights. Sure it’s spin but it would definitely work. Big mean government vs tiny church.
Wouldn’t we be rid of churches if this was actually enforced?
are there any examples of this ever working? I’d like to be wrong but I don’t think this works or has ever worked
I guess we’ll have to send in spies, though, because congregation members are never going to report their own church.
