Hi MMXI
While I appreciate the effort you put into your scenario it's inadmisable. Since you set it from your own personal opinion. Which is that you THINK witnesses don't earn more than another average group of random people taken from society. You accused me of Generalisation? but what if I said "All American indians don't pay as much tax because they don't get high paid jobs, I know this because I new a couple of them a few years ago"(this is a completely prejudiced statement with no basis of truth in it and exactly like yours)
If you want to submit that Mr a pays more tax than Mr C then you have to prove it. I could equally say I know a Witness that owns his own business and would wipe the floor with your sample Mr A in tax paying.
We could try and take the tax statements of every single witness to try and prove my point but would we include Prince or the williams sisters?
The congregation you mentioned how many were retired? and had already put in a full-life of tax-paying but under your example wouldn't qualify because they are retired?
My position is, that if a previous tax dodger becomes a witness he would start paying tax under effect of learning bible morality. Hense being a witness does make him pay more tax.
Scientology is very popular with the rich and famous a tax statement from them might be an eye-opener.
This is also preportionate. Religion does tend attract people at the lower end of the wage scale. Does that mean a religion is penalised because rich men don't join them?
Are people worthless if they are low paid cleaners believing in God rather than a affluent middle-class Atheist?
This is why I hate capitalism because a persons worth is calculated by how much money they make.
So your argument is that France can ask more in taxes because witnesses don't have enough affluent people join them in your opinion! basically tax the poor through their religion because they don't have a good enough job?
Governments tax people according to their income not religious status.
I could probably find lots of axamples of religions where it is made up of low paid workers simply by going to a country like India. Should their religion be taxed due to the poverty structure of the country itself?
England has a disproportionate amount of rich compared to a huge section of poor and out-of-work atm simply because of the recent recession a lot of them ex-public sector workers. Capitalism only works in a pyrimid where a small group of Rich are at the top compared to a massive group of poorer at the bottom.
I should have said Witnesses Pay taxes according to their fiscal circumstances as required by the Government. Taxing their religous preference on top of that would be unfair.