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BrunoMaria
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Well - considering as to how the money is spend, I love paying Church Tax, for in percent to the 81 Millions living in Germany, plus those living here not registered, nowhere in the world so many kindergarten, hospitals, social care facilities, plus much more to help others - disregarding their faith and religion, plus the maintaining of countless medieval Cathedrals, Churches and works of religious art of all centuries even of the year 900 and earlier, are maintained by the CHURCH TAX very well spend. Without Church-Tax it would be impossible to maintain all this to the benefit of the whole world.
And in Catholic hospitals or Protestant ones (last of which called Diakonie), no-one is asked if he is Catholic or a Christian or even an atheist, all are treated alike. Even immigrants who only just crossed the border and never payed a penny into any health-insurance.
And yes, I’d be ashamed not to pay Church-Tax. It’s of course voluntary to pay or not - but if you don’t, you automatically leave the Church in both Churches. Adding, that people who earn below a certain limit which is rather high, do automatically not pay Church tax. Often they don’t even know.
It’s so often been worked out. Even though the state too ads his Part to all this mentioned above; if the Church would not maintain so much, like Catholic and Protestant Schools, hospitals, nursery-homes etc and much of it with staff that even doesn’t get payed such as Catholic Nuns and Monks, the State would have to raise taxes, for it could not take over or assume all these financial burdens. Most hospitals in my homeone Karlsruhe, are confessional hospitals. Several schools are too. Two years ago, two large hospitals here - the Catholic St. Vincentius-Hospital and the Diaconal-Hospital merged under one management for cost reasons.
And in Catholic hospitals or Protestant ones (last of which called Diakonie), no-one is asked if he is Catholic or a Christian or even an atheist, all are treated alike. Even immigrants who only just crossed the border and never payed a penny into any health-insurance.
And yes, I’d be ashamed not to pay Church-Tax. It’s of course voluntary to pay or not - but if you don’t, you automatically leave the Church in both Churches. Adding, that people who earn below a certain limit which is rather high, do automatically not pay Church tax. Often they don’t even know.
It’s so often been worked out. Even though the state too ads his Part to all this mentioned above; if the Church would not maintain so much, like Catholic and Protestant Schools, hospitals, nursery-homes etc and much of it with staff that even doesn’t get payed such as Catholic Nuns and Monks, the State would have to raise taxes, for it could not take over or assume all these financial burdens. Most hospitals in my homeone Karlsruhe, are confessional hospitals. Several schools are too. Two years ago, two large hospitals here - the Catholic St. Vincentius-Hospital and the Diaconal-Hospital merged under one management for cost reasons.
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