Churches would pay the FairTax on all their purchases that weren’t for resale. Kotlikoff estimated that non-profits, including churches, would have paid ~$36 billion in FairTax last year. A church could pay taxes now and speak about whatever they wanted.
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Sure they could renounce their tax exempt status and be free (This is a freedom issue) today ... but then they would be paying Income Tax... Did Kotlikoff also state that the same $36B is paid TODAY by non-profits in the embedded taxes on the purchases they make?? If not he is distorting the argument by discounting the current (hidden) taxation...
I am amazed at the lengths people will go in an attempt to retain the yoke and whip of the Income Tax.
Sure they could renounce their tax exempt status and be free (This is a freedom issue) today ... but then they would be paying Income Tax... Did Kotlikoff also state that the same $36B is paid TODAY by non-profits in the embedded taxes on the purchases they make?? If not he is distorting the argument by discounting the current (hidden) taxation...You're a classic FairTaxer. First you claim churches don't pay the FairTax then when you are shown that's not true - it doesn't matter because of embedded taxes.