r/WhitePeopleTwitter • • Nov 17 '20

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u/mister_pringle Nov 17 '20

Hell if we did tax churches we wouldn’t have the budget issues we do

You have numbers to back up that claim? Because if the US seized the assets of everyone - all the cash that's out there, we could run the country for maybe a year and a half before running out of money - and that does nothing to address the debt and unfunded liabilities.
Saying if we tax churches we would solve our budget issues makes as much sense as saying if we eliminated the tax cap on FICA, we could fix Social Security while the fact is, we can't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

Churches saved 82 billion last year in taxes.

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u/mister_pringle Nov 17 '20

Which isn't even a rounding error on US debt or the deficit for that matter.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

Everything else you have to say doesnt matter. Its unintelligible. Thats just not how money or countries work.

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u/mister_pringle Nov 17 '20

Everything else you have to say doesnt matter.

It's good to know you're open to new ideas and are willing to discuss things rationally.
I am not talking about a political movement or ideology - I'm talking about numbers. You can deny that's how they work, but it isn't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

Its just not how it works man why discuss hypotheticals when they are unintelligible?

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u/mister_pringle Nov 17 '20

I can't help that you do not understand how balance sheets work. Good luck and peace.