PS: We, every tax payer, even pay for the "frankincense" in catholic church rituals and for many more persons in the church hierarchy, not only bishops. These do not only get "near 10,000" as I wrote, but 13,000 €/month = > 14,300$. Per Month! And: They don't pay into the state's pension system (~19% per month), only pay 50% for health insurance, and the free car they get is usually a S-class mercedes now (used to be an E-class some 10 years ago). So, all in all (including their appartements in best locations), these persons cost ALL tax payers some 20-30,000 €/month! Back in 2010 the tax payers paid some 442,000,000 €/year. That should now be close to 500,000,000…
Re:German Church Tax
by thecleaner on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:34PM
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I have no idea why you're getting down-voted. It is unlikely for average Germans to have a salary of 10000Euros a month. Not even for people working in lucrative fields such as software. On top of all this, the government just gives out money to some other institution while working class people bear so much of the burden. This is harassment.
> The money coming from all tax payers (yes, muslims, buddhists, atheists … too!) is taken
Wrong.
> They get a free appartement, a free car with a driver and a salary near 10,000 €/Month
I guess you should leave the Catholic church then. Oh, you're not a member? Why should you have a say in what salary Catholics find adequate?
You got it wrong. What I listed is NOT what church goers pay for with their "church tax". It is paid by the State from the tax paid by ALL tax payers in the country, be their religious or not (like me).
AND: The entire sum (e.g. for tax evations granted to the churches by the state) is 20.6 billion (yes, 20,600,000,000) €/year!
But … they take care of our children in Kindergartens (2% paid by the church, the rest by the tax payers) with so much love and devotion, you know … maybe I should think: It's worth it. But I can't.
(signed by an angry German)