{"id":560,"date":"2009-08-27T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T02:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=560"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:46:26","slug":"tax-the-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/08\/27\/tax-the-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax the Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems absurdly simple. We&#8217;re spending money hand over fist. Taxes will, with absolute certainty, soon rise. It seems likely to me that taxes will rise to rates never before seen in this land.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone tell me a rational reason why churches enjoyed tax-exempt status?<\/p>\n<p>We absolutely need to tax all churches, as we do every other non-profit.<\/p>\n<p><del>Check out this Web site to read some more; it was the first hit Google returned when I searched.<br \/>\n<\/del>Oops &#8211; taxthechurches.org has apparently gone dark.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s with me on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems absurdly simple. We&#8217;re spending money hand over fist. Taxes will, with absolute certainty, soon rise. It seems likely to me that taxes will rise to rates never before seen in this land. Can anyone tell me a rational reason why churches enjoyed tax-exempt status? We absolutely need to tax all churches, as we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/08\/27\/tax-the-churches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tax the Churches<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[28,73,37,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}