Dear Is Mise,

«all of the charitable work that they now do should be funded by the State, simple.»

What? Are you going to deny ordinary people the ability to open their hearts and express their generosity towards the needy?

Not at all, it just comes out of their taxes.

Dear Is Mise,

But so long as taxes are not voluntary (as I wish them to be), one is denied the ability to express the goodness of their heart!

Also what if one wants to help a particular charitable cause, also what if they believe that some other cause is not worthwhile, not truly charitable or perhaps even harmful?

Tied my legs to together here, not wanting to target one faith or the worst of that faith, however surely few doubt some, of the American right Churches are very very rich? we complain, and rightfully so, about multi nationals not paying tax in out country, but surely some faiths, some from within them, are no different? how do we not note some pure cults get the same tax break as true believers?

The easy part of charity work is giving a cash donation. The hard part is getting in and doing something practical that helps improve the lives of others. Some of the people working at hoko hoko shops like Vinnies are pensioners and cant afford a cash donation, but their efforts are worth their weight in gold. Anna you're worth your weight in gold dear lady.

Having said that I would still slug rosary beads, cruixfixes, bibles and koran's etc with a 10% mumbo jumbo tax.

Do you know that trades union are not taxed on their profits from the enormous investments? I’m not talking about their union fees but profit on investments from the enormous wealthy they’ve accumulated over the years. For example..."With income nudging $150 million and assets in excess of $310 million, the CFMEU is a financial titan whose earnings outstrip major private companies".


Paraphrasing Belly...I have zero doubt a lot of the extreme wealth some unions have came from the true poor, and that such money should be taxed and not hived away for that unions use.

It is estimated that the Australia taxpayer loses around $50 billion per year by not taxing unions and that means other taxpayers have to pick up that slack.

I’m sure all those who want to tax churches on equity grounds will be totally on board with also taxing unions.

“The tax exemptions [for churches] costs Australia over 30 billion dollars a year.”...Foxy
There are some numbers you look up and some you make up. This is the latter. No one knows how much tax is ‘forgone’ since no one knows how much ‘profit’ the churches might make if it were taxed. It’s just a case of pick a big number to make the case seem more important than it really is.