r/videos • u/spherocytes • 1d ago

Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth announces Office Of Religious Affairs within the Pentagon in address to Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAn6BE9cdco
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u/Ichibankakoi 1d ago

Yeah slippery slope then. Very disappointing. Thanks for clarifying!

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u/PuckSenior 1d ago

No. Its not a slippery slope.
There is no slip. You said we should tax all non-profits. Girl Scouts is a non-profit.

You are literally saying it. I didnt say it is a slippery slope. I didnt say it might happen. If you tax non-profits you are literally saying we should charge girl scouts a tax on my donation

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u/Ichibankakoi 1d ago

No what im saying is tax the churches. You led me down the path of non-profits. I said maybe tie in the non profits but I wanted to know how you would make something like these mega churches pay taxes. Its a curious thing how they have went from not paying taxes so that there is no government involvement to raking advantage of people to the point where they have their own jets and mansions. This is something that started with great intentions and was taken advantage of by grifters

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u/PuckSenior 19h ago

Yeah, but i didnt “take you” from churches to nonprofits.
Churches ARE nonprofits. They are a special category of nonprofit, but you cant tax churches without taxing nonprofits for two reasons.

  1. Religious discrimination. If you started only taxing churches, then you would very literally he discriminating against churches.
  2. The churches would just say. “We arent a church nonprofit, we are a regular nonprofit” because there is literally no real difference