Thread by @alexdschiller

Wait... wait. Churches got $50bn in donations in 2018. That amounts to *pretends to do math* $0 in taxes. The money donated to the churches can be written off. So the people donating it also paid zero income taxes on that money.

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But now churches can borrow money, from the SBA, and have those loans forgiven if they use it to cover the payroll of people who also don't get taxed, and whose money also comes primarily from donations?

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So churches are a $50bn a year industry that not only generates $0 in tax revenue, but also potentially erases the tax revenue on that $50bn when it was first earned, assuming it's written off by the donor.

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And because they may have difficulty paying their staff, they are now able to access tax dollars paid in by everyone else, which can be "forgiven," meaning they don't need to pay it back?

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So the right wing conservative religious leaders that are all over TV right now warning us of the dangers of liberals and the evil of socialism will get off the air, take off their mics, go home, and submit bank applications for taxpayer dollars to cover their cash-grabs, ...

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...book sales, jet fuel, crusades against science and women's rights, dubious products, and propaganda messaging to the people that already give them money.

Using my money.

Have I got that right?

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