{"id":33072,"date":"2012-06-16T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T01:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_atheists_challenge_the_tax_exemption_for_religious_groups\/"},"modified":"2012-06-16T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T01:29:53","slug":"rns_atheists_challenge_the_tax_exemption_for_religious_groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33072","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Atheists challenge the tax exemption for religious groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much money does the U.S. government forgo by not taxing religious institutions? According to a University of Tampa professor, perhaps as much as $71 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Cragun, an assistant professor of sociology, and two students examined U.S. tax laws to estimate the total cost of tax exemptions for religious institutions \u201d\u201d on property, donations, business enterprises, capital gains and \u201cparsonage allowances,\u201d\u009d which permit clergy to deduct housing costs&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/atheists-challenge-the-tax-exemption-for-religious-groups\/2012\/06\/14\/gJQATltKdV_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much money does the U.S. government forgo by not taxing religious institutions? According to a University of Tampa professor, perhaps as much as $71 billion a year. Ryan Cragun, an assistant professor of sociology, and two students examined U.S.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33072\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,425,579,149,114,155,108,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-atheism","category-churchstate-matters","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}