Mormon Church 'earns' 7 Billion per year- Time to Start Taxing the Churches! [View all]

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Why were they traditionally exempt from paying income and property tax?

Because there was supposed to be a separation of church and state, and they were supposed to stay out of matters of the state.

They crossed the line, and they need to be held accountable.

I have read so many accounts of political bullshit being said in church, being printed in church newsletters...they are not even trying to hide it.

They have no business taking so much tax revenue from us to perpetuate their lies and misdeeds.

Cragun and Reuters estimate that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brings in some $7 billion annually in tithes and other donations.

It owns about $35 billion worth of temples and meeting houses around the world, and controls farms, ranches, shopping malls and other commercial ventures worth many billions more.

The church has plowed resources into a multi-billion-dollar global network of for-profit enterprises: it is the largest rancher in the United States, a church official told Nebraska's Lincoln Journal Star in 2004, with other ranches and farms in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and Great Britain, according to financial documents reviewed by Reuters.

Ranching and farm industry sources say they are well-run operations.

It also has a small media empire, an investment fund, and is developing a mall across from its Salt Lake City headquarters, which it calls an attempt to help revitalize the city rather than to make money.

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/13/13262285-mormon-church-earns-7-billion-a-year-from-tithing-analysis-indicates?lite

Why is this acceptable?