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Ruby the Liberal

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7. Yet megachurches and their multimillion dollar con artists

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Jul 19, 2025, 02:26 PM

Jul 19

don't have to pay a dime.

Oh, and to that crowd? Jesus' own words (those are the red ones in the book you are using as a paperweight): “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”

That means pay your damn taxes so that Caesar can keep the roads and bridges up to date and provide education and healthcare.

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Thank you for your attention to this matter. [View all] Swede Jul 19 OP

And we're allowing this... dlilafae Jul 19 #1

"We" are not allowing this. Many of us are working many hours a week in the resistance. Amaryllis Jul 19 #5

Isn't that the fucking truth ZDU Jul 19 #2

K & R for Jess Piper. She's great. Substack link here: chia Jul 19 #3

I remember people bemoaning Greece as austerity Farmer-Rick Jul 19 #4

I've been saying this about our paying taxes for months kkmarie Jul 19 #6

My guess is military or building structures and roads near the Nazi's new commercial "endeavors". efhmc Jul 19 #8

Pete Hegseth's makeup studio and Kristi Noem's cosplaying yliza Jul 19 #10

To service the debt intrepidity Jul 20 #14

iCE for deporting hard working law-abiding immigrants MadameButterfly Jul 20 #15

Yet megachurches and their multimillion dollar con artists Ruby the Liberal Jul 19 #7

Probably because most of those items... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 19 #9

yeah but if you believe in that, Federal taxes should go down MadameButterfly Jul 20 #16

Yep. We're just straight-up funding the end of democracy at this point. And little to nothing else. Karasu Jul 19 #11

Pretty much what i enumerated in #15 MadameButterfly Jul 20 #17

My kids have started asking me this. AllyCat Jul 19 #12

Someone suggested to me that with half the IRS cut MadameButterfly Jul 20 #18

I've reminded them the cuts at IRS were to help the rich AllyCat Jul 20 #20

330 million vs. 1 dickhead rickyhall Jul 19 #13

Really unfathomable how we can't overcome MadameButterfly Jul 20 #19