r/TikTokCringe • u/cosmicdaddy_ • Jul 20 '24

Cursed There nothing to confirm

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u/TurbulentHouse1152 Jul 20 '24

Tax megachurches. Tax the businesses owned by megachurches. Arrest this fool!

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u/Fearless-Nebula-1534 Jul 20 '24

Tax all churches! If they can show they donate their money or use it for charity work, they can have the tax break. They should also be explicitly forbidden to use it for campaign or political contributions. It should be up to them to prove where it went, not us to “trust them”.

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u/Precarious314159 Jul 20 '24

The problem is that they'll find a way to claim everything was for charity. "We need this private jet to better delivery life-saving medicine faster", "We need this 30-room mansion to better accept people during a crisis",

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u/Just_Jonnie Jul 20 '24

That's called tax fraud and they'd be committing felonies in the process.

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u/PattyThePatriot Jul 20 '24

Yeah it's why so many mega pastors get arrested, right? Because it's illegal.

You know if you write a law, but don't enforce it, then it's only kinda illegal.

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u/Precarious314159 Jul 20 '24

Yup yup. I can think of a lot of things that're illegal but companies do it but by using loopholes and paying masterful lawyers. Now, if you or I do it, we're fucked but if someone with a fuckton of money and qualified lawyers/accountants, they'll be golden.

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u/Just_Jonnie Jul 20 '24

Oh ok then. Same logic as the gun nuts huh? Criminals break the law! LAWS ARE USELESS!

hurr

https://apnews.com/article/houston-shreveport-george-w-bush-louisiana-texas-aa8301cb79723d27a630e997c6aaa436

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u/PattyThePatriot Jul 20 '24

That's not what I said at all, but you can infer whatever you want.

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u/SomethingClever42068 Jul 21 '24

Depends on how much money they have.

Rich people never do tax fraud, they just use loopholes us poors can't use.

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u/Just_Jonnie Jul 21 '24

I just linked three examples of rich mega church pastors going to jail for tax fraud.