From The Washington Post-
Republicans tax churches to help pay for big corporate giveaway.
You would be forgiven for thinking this is a headline from the Onion or the fantasy of some left-wing website. But it’s exactly what happened in the big corporate tax cut the GOP passed last year.
Now
— under pressure from churches, synagogues and other nonprofits —
embarrassed leaders of a party that casts itself as religious liberty’s
last line of defense are trying to fix a provision that is a monument to
both their carelessness and their hypocrisy.
The
authors of the measure apparently didn’t even understand what they were
doing — or that’s their alibi to faith groups now. It’s not much of a
defense. And the fact that Republicans increased the tax burden on
nonprofits, including those tied to religion, so they could shower money
on corporations and the wealthy shows where their priorities lie.
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