{"id":5730,"date":"2011-12-16T07:32:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2011-12-16T07:32:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T13:32:31","slug":"its-time-to-tax-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/its-time-to-tax-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time to Tax the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At AlterNet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why don&#8217;t we consider taxing the churches?<\/p>\n<p>Not all churches or all ministers are rich, but some of them are very rich indeed. And that&#8217;s no surprise, because society subsidizes them through a constellation of generous tax breaks that aren&#8217;t available to any other institution, even non-profits&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/belief\/153448\/how_we_all_pay_for_the_huge_tax_privileges_granted_to_religion_--_it's_time_to_tax_the_church\">Interesting read, here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At AlterNet: Why don&#8217;t we consider taxing the churches? Not all churches or all ministers are rich, but some of them are very rich indeed. And that&#8217;s no surprise, because society subsidizes them through a constellation of generous tax breaks that aren&#8217;t available to any other institution, even non-profits&#8230; Interesting read, here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[280],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1uq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}