Thank you!

Thanks!

Hernandez v. Commissioner doesn't deal with taxing Churches themselves, it deals with the question of whether payments made to churches are tax deductible as charitable donations, and ruled they weren't.

You are right that churches can be taxed and that there is a narrow window. That window usually relates to their participation is activities not directly related to or supporting worship or charitable works.

But the reason we don't tax churches is because of the establishment clause of the 1st amendment.

That's not all it says.

Please refer to point 3 here.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/397/664/#674

" 3. The tax exemption creates only a minimal and remote involvement between church and state, far less than taxation of churches would entail, and it restricts the fiscal relationship between them, thus tending to complement and reinforce the desired separation insulating each from the other. Pp. 397 U. S. 674-676."

Separation of Church and state.

See Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)

Religious institutions not being taxes is a result of the separation of church and state. Taxing houses of worship directly entangles the state with religion far more than not taxing them does.

See Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)

You used to be able to just open the front door and walk in a few years ago. It's totally gutted inside and just sitting and rotting; what a waste of prime real estate.

The night the Eagles won the super bowl me and some friends went up to the roof along with some other random people who followed us in the back door from Sansom. It was wild to just see and hear the entire city celebrating from up on the roof.

Anyway, here is what it looks like inside, or at least what it looked like 5 years ago.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/soldat252/albums/72157635090832237/with/52572250259/

They don't have to be on separate meters but in cases like that landlords usually just build the price of electric into the rent.

This apartment and landlord definitely are on the more slipshod and shady side.

It mostly looks different because the bridge in Rocky was demolished and replaced with a new bridge

It also does not stop the victim from being hurt or killed.

Exactly; Location, location, location.

My home would easily be worth double it's value if it was located in, say Havertown, and probably near triple if it were in Lower Merion.

But it's location is what it is, so it isn't.

I tried to buy a home in Lansdowne a few years ago but the bank appraised it lower than what I needed for a mortgage for, so that was that.

Only Mental hospitals didn't all close (spill) under Reagan. They have continually and steadily closed throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and continue to close today.

It's more like your one roommate spilled milk and then your other roommates all came in and knocked over more glasses of milk, and then nobody cleaned it up.

Haverford State closed in 1996, Allentown in 2010, Norristown continues to shrink.

It's not just the federal government either, state governments didn't (and don't) want to keep paying for these institutions. Since the advent of Psychopharmacology state hospital populations have continually shrunk since 1955 when hospital populations peaked (iirc give or take a few years).

This dumb bullshit should be illegal.

This city is a disgrace and holds developers to no standard.

Mandatory execution/life in prison for straw purchasers

People driving cars with fake tags are generally idiots who are driving junk. It's likely one of these things would also be screwed up, which would allow the police to conduct a stop.

People would just get two fake tags....

The .38 caliber gun on the ground with spent cases in it next to mumia, who was wearing a holster for it, with a bullet from the cop lodged in him, sure seems pretty conclusive

>“the Philadelphia Police Department's own medical examiner concluded that the officer's fatal head wound was made by a .44 caliber bullet. Mumia Abu-Jamal's pistol was a .38 caliber.”

Yeah, no.

"When asked to provide proof to support this allegation, Jamal’s supporters point to a handwritten note made by Assistant Medical Examiner, Dr. Paul Hoyer. Dr. Hoyer’s note said, “shot 44 Cal”.

Dr. Hoyer testified at the 1995 PCRA Hearing and explained that his 1981 note merely reflected his speculation at what caliber the bullet might be, made when he first saw the wound and before he started the autopsy. The note was written on a piece of scrap paper, and was not a part of (and was never intended to be a part of) his professional findings."

http://danielfaulkner.org/myths-about-mumia/myth-1/

Why did they paint it over?

This is correct

You don't know the right people

Dock street never impressed me. Maybe that's just me though.

OP, be advised Tired Hands is owned by a dick, but it might be the best beer in the entire area, though Roy Pitz, now Liquid Arts, is a strong contender.

Philly Brewing Company is good beer (not the best, but not bad), operated by good people who don't aspire to be more than just a neighborhood brewery making the people's beer (Kenzinger)

I knew their old apprentice brewer and was going there in Chambersburg back when they just had a retail counter with the brewery in the basement.

Idk, maybe it's nostalgia but this rebrand really turns me off.