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harvard is a pipeline for wealthy elitists politicians and graduates. wonder if something will shift

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They should get rid of tax exemptions for churches too. The first amendment says the state can’t mandate a specific religion or prohibit people from having their religion of choice. It doesn’t say anything about taxing the billions that churches take in.

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aren’t their exemption because it’s “non profit”?

(without a doubt the IRS need to go after megachurches though)

if a church or any religious establishment is working properly with no profit, then no need for taxes anyways.

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Tax everything above their operating costs.

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In order to maintain tax exempt status, churches may not engage in politics. That means no supporting a political party or political candidates. Most churches are in violation of that rule which makes them taxable just like the Democratic or Republican parties.

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All this is is just payback for Trump university.

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…wait, why the fuck are they tax exempt exactly?

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because they teach people and the govt thinks that education is important

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because they teach people and the govt thinks thought that education is was important

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Just not education that talks back.

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Man… come 2028 I don’t want to hear shit from Democratic candidates that doesn’t involve an exhaustive list of all the awful shit Trump did and what steps they will take to undo all of it. Sorry chum, you picked a bad time to run so you don’t get to have an agenda that isn’t ‘pulling Trump’s dick out of this country’s ass because it’s fucked enough already.’ Cause if you’re not willing to undo this shit I really don’t care what else you have to say.

(Yeah, bring on the downvotes, I can take the heat.)

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Prepare to be disappointed.

“Preventing Trump from doing exactly what he’s now doing” was somehow not a good enough reason for Americans to vote for the brown lady. Or the white lady, for that matter.

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It’s the Democratic Party, if you don’t go into it already prepared to be disappointed you haven’t been paying attention. :P

And I’m not talking about whether not they win, I’m saying their campaigns should consist solely of ‘here’s a list of things Trump fucked and that I am going to unfuck.’

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Well then I hope I can have your vote, because my platform will be to use the sweeping new executive powers carved out by the current administration to throw every member of said administration along with every employee of ICE ERO into the “unextraditable foreign gulag detention” black hole, and only then work with Congress and the courts to make that impossible again.

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Nah I’m not down with that. Prosecute them with proper due process, remove everyone’s ability to do what you suggest, and unfuck all the things Trump fucked and you’ll have my vote.

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Look, I’m going to be honest, if a Progressive or Democrat on the campaign trail says they would use all of the powers granted to trump against all Republicans in a goose and gander situation, they’d have my vote.

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“All billionaires will be summarily executed and their assets will be distributed to the citizenry, and the Heritage Foundation will be declared a terrorist organization, and all current and past leaders, funders, employees, and judges endorsed by them will be immediately sent to a prison camp in El Salvador” seems like a winning message.

And anything the president wants only needs an executive order, it seems, so it should be pretty easy to implement.

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I’m not about revenge, I’m about making the world a better place for everyone, even the people who want to make it a worse place.

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Good for you. I am and I also think using the powers Trump has been given effectively would make the entire world a better place.

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