It shouldn't be controversial to say churches that don't pay taxes shouldn't get taxpayer support.
The church's employees pay taxes. Their landlords pay taxes. And utilities have fixed costs.
It shouldn't be controversial to say churches that don't pay taxes shouldn't get taxpayer support.
The church's employees pay taxes. Their landlords pay taxes. And utilities have fixed costs.
So give individuals relief, not institutions.
You don't need a time machine. We have several COVID threads and a search engine to show what I said about this.Fire up the time machine to 2020 so we can figure out the best way to quickly get money into the hands of people and do it right this time in pH's opinion. Don't you think employers would be the most likely to know exactly how much their workers were making in every paycheck and most likely to be able to administer those payments in a timely manner ?
These people are criminals and they will go to jail for abusing the system, just like a lot of other people.
I do have to take a second to laugh at the ideas that "employers" (as if everyone has one specific job for one specific employer) know each individual's finances better than the IRS and that employers make the workers their top priority when taking huge sums of government money.
The IRS does have prior year knowledge of all wages paid to the employee for the places they worked that prior year. You can probably guess where that info comes from though.
Right. So was the goal to give some employers the option to pay some people or for people to maintain their standard of living during a pandemic?
The IRS already has a mechanism for handing out money and getting it back over time. PPP loans added a middle man and layers of bureaucracy.
Pretty sure he meant a big break in early 2020.These aren’t hindsight arguments. This is what I was arguing at the time. If someone got a big break in early 2021, less than a year after the start of the pandemic, they’d be in good shape.
Wage theft isn’t a new or unanticipated issue.