{"id":916,"date":"2006-10-16T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T08:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2006-10-16T17:14:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T09:14:33","slug":"914-of-religion-based-tax-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"[914] Of religion-based tax breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has four interesting articles on how religious organizations, especially Christian-based, are getting unfair advantages over other bodies; in some instance, at others’ expense. Those four articles are:<\/p>\n

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  1. As Exemptions Grow, Religion Outweighs Regulation <\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Where Faith Abides, Employees Have Few Rights<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Religious Programs Expand, So Do Tax Breaks<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Religion-Based Tax Breaks: Housing to Paychecks to Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The most objectable example in the four articles this is: a Bible-based theme park gets tax-exemption because it’s religion-related. Imagine that – a tax-free theme park. I’d call that abusing the system.<\/p>\n

    I see religious body as just another non-profit organizations. If such religious body starts to run a business \u2014 like running a theme park, regardless the theme \u2014 they should pay tax like everybody else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The New York Times has four interesting articles on how religious organizations, especially Christian-based, are getting unfair advantages over other bodies; in some instance, at others’ expense. Those four articles are: As Exemptions Grow, Religion Outweighs Regulation Where Faith Abides, Employees Have Few Rights Religious Programs Expand, So Do Tax Breaks Religion-Based Tax Breaks: Housing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}