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re: Why aren’t churches taxed?

Posted by ImaObserver on 5/23/25 at 6:08 pm
1. Roman Catholic Church: 70 million hectares
The largest landowner in the world is not a major oil magnate or a real estate investor. No, it's the Roman Catholic Church. According to lovemoney.com, the church owns more than 70 million hectares. An area that is larger than France. It is not just about agricultural land, but also about land in the most expensive locations in London, Paris and New York.
(Web search generated info.) 70 million hectares converts to 172,973,767 acres or about 173 million acres.

re: Why aren’t churches taxed?

Posted by ImaObserver on 5/23/25 at 5:50 pm
Mormon Church Land Acres
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, owns more than 2.3 million acres of private land in the US, which accounts for approximately 1 in every 550 acres.
This makes them the second-largest landowner in the country.
In addition to this, the church owns significant amounts of land in specific states. For example, in Montana, the Mormon church owns 255,000 acres
, and in Nebraska, it owns about 370,000 acres of agricultural land.
The church also owns nearly 300,000 acres of land, 44,000 head of beef cattle, and maintains 90 rancher families on their ranch.
In Florida, the church owns approximately 672,834 acres of land, which accounts for almost 2% of the state’s land mass.

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re: Why aren’t churches taxed?

Posted by ImaObserver on 5/22/25 at 8:21 pm
Property taxes? Politics aside, the large ones own billions and even trillions worth of property and much of it is a source of revenue competing with the tax paying public.
Just trying to earn a few bucks to help pay off his student loans for his Doctorate in Psychology from Harvard.
Most of you are commenting on prices whereas in many instances the problem is actually "priorities". Todays younger folk are not willing to wait and hope and save for the day when they can own their own home, instead they place their priorities on that next vacation, concert, cruise, new boat, side-by-side, fishing or hunting trip, etc. etc.
When there is only so much water in the well they will use it for washing their new car and then go spend gas money driving that car to the mall to buy a case of bottled water. Priorities!! :rolleyes:
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It’s literally the single most important decision to saving the future of this country.

Illegals are in violation of our laws by the nature of their entry. They are not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, but rather are the citizens of their native lands. Illegal aliens are "foreigners" who cannot be called to jury duty or drafted into the U.S. military services. When these foreigners encounter adverse circumstances they are able to appeal to the consulates of their native countries for legal and financial assistance and regularly do so. Babies born to these foreigners are not citizens of the U.S.A. but rather of the nations of their parents. Those who are present in our country legally, eg if they are exclusively under the jurisdiction of the Constitution and US law, would, by the 14th Amendment, have their babies given US citizenship.

"Over a century ago, the Supreme Court appropriately confirmed this restricted interpretation of citizenship in the so-called "Slaughter-House cases" [83 US 36 (1873) and 112 US 94 (1884).
In the 1884 Elk v. Wilkins case, the 14th Amendment phrase "subject to its jurisdiction" was interpreted to exclude "children of ministers, consuls, and citizens of foreign states born within the United States."
In Elk, the American Indian claimant was considered not an American citizen because the law required him to be "not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction and owing them direct and immediate allegiance." ? ?The citizenship question of American Indians was addressed and altered in the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

"The Court essentially stated that the status of the parents determines the citizenship of the child. To qualify children for birthright citizenship, based on the 14th Amendment, parents must owe "direct and immediate allegiance" to the U.S. and be "completely subject" to its jurisdiction with no foreign allegiance whatsoever. In other words, they must be United States citizens."

Many in quoting the 14th amendment conveniently forget to include the words "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof". Their disingenuity reveals that they are concerned about the effect of these few words on their contention. Granting citizenship to those born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents is a deliberate act of defiance of the law and may actually be treasonous.
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I hope they take the baby away.

That would be the worst punishment for the mother because it would end that extra income and she would have to get pregnant again to get another check.
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Putin should drop one nuke on Kyiv.


If they did so they would receive retribution from multiple unexpected directions. Instant WW3 because it would be suicide not to act immediately against the insanity of Russia and her supporters rather than waiting to see what they were going to do next.
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Peter meant to say the Mega Conglomerates like ADM, Cargill, and Koch

These and other such entities will continue to sell to China but the cargos will be consigned to other destinations before being "resold" by the original "purchaser" and the shipments redirected to China thru various devious manipulations. Maybe the vessel has to lay up for a couple of days in an intermediary port to make it look right on the books, but the cargo stays on board and is "resold" by that original "buyer" to avoid the politics.
Two weeks ago a corporate farm in our area planted 8900 acres of soybeans in three days with their fleet of 36 row planters. Haven't heard yet how many acres of corn.
My dad was right when he said that the country would have been a lot better off if their had never been anything bigger than a three bottom plow tractor.
Maybe just give yourself a pre-wash prior to pooping so that doesn't stick. :rolleyes:
The Pope is just another gang banger, but he heads the worlds biggest gang of pedophiles and rapists that has ever existed and he protects them at all costs. Without the fear of retribution these evil creatures prey on the faithful and the ignorant without remorse.

Some time back, a successful young man from our community returned to visit his parents on the farm where he grew up. His proud parents took him to church with them to show him off to the parishioners and the community. When departing the church after services they were met at the church door by the priest and the young man proceeded to deck the priest with a single blow. The clueless old ladies of the community are still wondering why this former alter boy treated his former priest so grievously. ;-(
Yup! Do you want to be one of the 99 guys gathered in a bunch to distract him or do you want to be the guy that sneaks up behind him and kicks him in the nuts to get his attention so the other 99 can charge in mass?
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my emotional support animals
Pets. they are called pets.


Maybe his "Emotional Support Animals" moonlighted at Hooters. :lol:
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my emotional support animals
Pets. they are called pets.


Maybe his "Emotional Support Animals" moonlighted at Hooters. :lol:
As i previously posted:

IF Karmelo is found guilty of murder, then the punishment must include forfeiture and confiscation of all funds donated to his fundraising efforts and confiscation of all benefits derived therefrom. This includes repayment of all money derived from those fundraising efforts and paid out to any and all beneficiaries, including his legal teams and going so far as money being paid to the local pizza delivery service.
Rather than being returned to the donors, those funds need to be reallocated to serve the best interests of the nation.

Any other disposition will lead to people sacrificing their gullible offspring to allow the family to strike gold at the expense of the sacrificial individual.
They are not U. S. Citizens.
In the 1884 Elk v. Wilkins case, the 14th Amendment phrase "subject to its jurisdiction" was interpreted to exclude "children of ministers, consuls, and citizens of foreign states born within the United States
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In Elk, the American Indian claimant was considered not an American citizen because the law required him to be "not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction and owing them direct and immediate allegiance."
"The Court essentially stated that the status of the parents determines the citizenship of the child. To qualify children for birthright citizenship, based on the 14th Amendment, parents must owe "direct and immediate allegiance" to the U.S. and be "completely subject" to its jurisdiction with no foreign allegiance whatsoever. In other words, they must be United States citizens."
The citizenship question of American Indians was addressed and altered in the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. The logical thinking of the Court in ELK remains unaltered in spite of the fact that future legislation legalized Indians as citizens.
So the mother has been here for more than 20 years, has not become a citizen and still cannot speak English? It appears as though they are trying to claim that he is an anchor baby? Like those born to Chinese mothers that traveled to Guam for anchor baby citizenship?

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Illegals are in violation of our laws by the nature of their entry. They are not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, but rather are the citizens of their native lands. Illegal aliens are "foreigners" who cannot be called to jury duty or drafted into the U.S. military services. When these foreigners encounter adverse circumstances they are able to appeal to the consulates of their native countries for legal and financial assistance and regularly do so. Babies born to these foreigners may receive birth certificates but they are not citizens of the U.S.A. but rather of the nations of their parents. See the 1884 Elk v. Wilkins case.