I'm perhaps slightly more tolerant for less-than-perfect design if it gets density into neighbourhoods but DAMN those are bad. Yes, budget and all, but I have a feeling a blind person could shit out something nicer...
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Originally Posted by buzzg
OK well they can pay taxes if they don't want any government control whatsoever. Can't just be allowed to freely operate with no rules or expenses.
As someone who is personally not religious, I could easily make the argument that they shouldn't be exempt from any taxes.
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Because they don't make money.
From an academic perspective, it's a fair but flawed point, but it just doesn't work out in reality unfortunately. The return comes in form of their contribution to communities. Admittedly, it's clearly not in the form of streetscape here, but people.
But religious organizations are clearly not the same as individuals or corps. They are very much within confines of government guideline, but are protected from those guidelines continually shrinking around them. In principle. It's not like their anarchistic rogue russian spy agencies haha.
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