With an abundance of vacant property and limited access to fresh produce, Mission of Mary Cooperative stepped in.
  • falynns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    257·
    12 days ago

    Maybe start paying taxes, on that and all other land they’ve confiscated.

      • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        One is doing it.

        The whole religion should be required to pay taxes on the money they profit off of their members.

        Maybe if these religious outfits all did this stuff, the stuff they preach, maybe they’d have an argument against paying taxes, but they don’t, so they should be required to give back by taxes, but we all know that will never happen, big scary man in the sky doesn’t like it.

      • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        11 days ago

        You’re the one who’s wrong here. All other 501c3 nonprofits have to show their books and prove it. Churches get a rubber stamp.

        Stop spreading this lie of yours

          • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            Lol. I’m so scared, Internet tough guy.

            Direct from the IRS website:

            Churches (including integrated auxiliaries and conventions or associations of churches) that meet the requirements of section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code are automatically considered tax exempt and are not required to apply for and obtain recognition of exempt status from the IRS. Donors are allowed to claim a charitable deduction for donations to a church that meets the section 501©(3) requirements even though the church has neither sought nor received IRS recognition that it is tax exempt. In addition, because churches and certain other religious organizations are not required to file an annual return or notice with the IRS, they are not subject to automatic revocation of exemption for failure to file.

            Sounds like a rubber stamp to me. They are automatically assumed to be in compliance, and don’t have to ever prove it.

            So, stop lying.

      • AllPintsNorth@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        11 days ago

        That’s just wrong. Churches are tax free because they are churches.

        Don’t believe me? Go look up a church’s 990… oh, wait… you can’t. Because they don’t have to file them because they are “special” in the eyes of the law. Not just a run of the mill charity.

      • falynns@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        Frustrating you don’t understand how churches work and the “charity” they do is self-serving.

          • can@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
            4·
            10 days ago

            and I WILL NOT stand silent while people like you smear their good deeds with your implications that all church charity is self-serving

            But you will do it without threatening language. Think it over and come back in a day if you’d like.

          • falynns@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            What an impressive big boy resume for an insulting baby-man.

            Churches suck; they manipulate, drain, and abuse their communities then claim to be better than everyone and get away with it because enablers like you.

            Eat a whole bag of dicks you pompous asshole.