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"small guys" ? Like the Roman Catholic Church, which likely has been moving it's money and holdings, just as it moves its guilty priests around, to hide them al
by giardini 6y ago
"small guys" ? Like the Roman Catholic Church, which likely has been moving it's money and holdings, just as it moves its guilty priests around, to hide them all so the pedophile lawsuits cannot get to it?
Exempting churches was a terrible, terrible mistake.
- kenned3 6y agoExempting churches was a terrible, terrible mistake. especially from a country with clear "separation of church and state" rules, except "in god we trust" on the money. No surprise they granted the churches the exemption, and stronly agree they should NOT have gotten the exemption given their own well documented corruption.
- ianai 6y agoIt probably wouldn’t get bipartisan support without the exception though. It’s not perfect legislation and none is, but at least it’s a start.
- coliveira 6y agoOf course, evangelicals are the biggest beneficiaries of church fraud. They open a new "church" every day, for the purpose of hiding their money producing assets: seminar companies, show business, book publishing, TV and radio.
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoThere's a pretty simple reason why churches and other non-profits are exempt. They don't have any owners, so they can't disclose who their owners are.
- coliveira 6y agoCompletely agree, especially because in this country is so each to open a new "church". One thing is to have legitimate churches, like the catholic or the protestant (whatever you think of them), another is to allow the creation of new "churches" so easily. It is a recipe for money laundering and a platform for con men (most of them are known as TV preachers).