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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/25/2010 : 08:37:55
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Damn' straight!
Greece leads the way
Category: Politics • Religion
Posted on: March 25, 2010 9:18 AM, by PZ Myers
Greece is rapidly heading towards economic collapse, and this has finally motivated tho do something that should have been done long ago:
The Greek government has announced it will start taxing churches as part of its efforts to get out of its financial crisis. A new draft bill to be tabled in parliament next week imposes a 20 per cent tax on the Orthodox church's real estate income, reportedly worth over 10 million Euros (US $14.8 million) a year, the Wall Street Journal reports. |
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
 Posted - 03/25/2010 : 08:46:45 [Permalink]
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 03/25/2010 : 08:52:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Damn' straight!
Greece leads the way
Category: Politics • Religion
Posted on: March 25, 2010 9:18 AM, by PZ Myers
Greece is rapidly heading towards economic collapse, and this has finally motivated tho do something that should have been done long ago:
The Greek government has announced it will start taxing churches as part of its efforts to get out of its financial crisis. A new draft bill to be tabled in parliament next week imposes a 20 per cent tax on the Orthodox church's real estate income, reportedly worth over 10 million Euros (US $14.8 million) a year, the Wall Street Journal reports. |
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Good for Greece! Thar's gold in them thar churches! |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2010 : 10:54:06 [Permalink]
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Reminds me of a passage from The Innocents Abroad:
Look at the grand Duomo of Florence- a vast pile that has been sapping the purses of her citizens for five hundred years, and is not nearly finished yet. Like all other men, I fell down and worshipped it, but when the filthy beggars swarmed around me the contrast was too striking, too suggestive, and I said,
"Oh, sons of classic Italy, is the spirit of enterprise, of self-reliance, of noble endeavour, utterly dead within ye? Curse your indolent worthlessness, why don't you rob your church?" |
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"The Republican agenda is to turn the United States into a third-world shithole." -P.Z.Myers |
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Tax the Churchs!
