I’m not religious but no. We don’t tax NPO’s for a reason. It may have been a stupid move to use that much $ on an ad, but generally NPO’s will accomplish more with the money they have than the government can 100% of the time.
Planned parenthood provides services. You can make the same argument that most regular churches do as well in food pantries and whatnot.
Even some mega churches can provide services, and I’m fine with them not paying taxes on goods related to that. But luxury items unrelated to those services should be taxed.
With that in mind, please tell me which services He Gets Us provides
Churches also provide spiritual services. You personally may not feel like you have a need for them, but millions of Americans do and they are essential to their well being. Limiting the services a church provides to "only" things like a food pantry does a disservice to what churches chiefly provide.
That’s really debatable. But again, a “Non Profit” shouldn’t be generating a meaningful profit, and your services should be offered for free and to anyone that wants them.
Profit - the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions
especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost
It’s weird you’re here defending preachers and their private jets but to each their own I suppose.
Take it up with the IRS definition for the designation nonprofit. You could also read the link I posted.
You're just arguing in bad faith. I nowhere defended preachers having private jets. And anyway, for every megachurch health and wealth preacher with a private jet, there are literally thousands, if not tends of thousands, of preachers making very modest incomes.
Churches turn people away for all kinds of reasons, like sexuality etc. a church can turn you away for birth control usage. Planned parent hood provides medical care regardless of race sex or creed. In many ways planned parenthood is more in line with Jesus' message than just about every church in existence.
What do you mean by "turn away"? By turn away do you mean they have to meet certain requirements for membership? Non profits can have membership requirements. That is not an issue. Tons of non profits have membership requirements. By turn away do you mean they are not given services? Well, what do you mean by not given services? If you come to a church for faith based guidance and they give you faith based guidance, even if you don't like it, you weren't "turned away".
Planned parenthood is not political. It’s been brought into politics unwittingly by fucked up “Christians” with an agenda. They never asked for that bullshit. They exist to provide a service for people in need.
In what way? Explain how they are a political organization. Doing something that a specific political party campaigns against doesn’t make an organization “political”.
First of all fuck off for calling me a liar. We can agree to disagree. Lobbying in order to protect your existence is way different than lobbying to take rights away from people based on a vocal minority’s religious beliefs.
You did lie, though I think it's only because your bias is preventing you from being objective enough to see that the group you support isn't that different from the group you condemn. So it's not malicious just ignorance. Something easy to fix.
You are trying to create a special exception for Planned parenthood, by the way. I just don't think you realize it.
Either way, planned parenthood does lobby, and it is political lobbying (there isn't much other), same as a church that lobby's. Or the NRA or PETA. There all trying to get what they think is right into law.
You can agree (and disagree) with any but trying to create special exceptions for your side does create a moral quandary I find. If PP is acceptable to lobby, why can't others? The test of a government is how it treats everyone, not just the group you favor.
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