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I have grown accustomed to Josh baking his opinions based on his upbringing in the Church dismissing even authentic miracles, seemingly writing it all off. Perhaps you conclude that as discernment as I know where you come from so I understand your always looking past Josh continually criticizing g ...

I’ll take bogus analogies for $900, Alex

However individuals who make charitable donations to their churches should be subtracting the value of any tangible benefits they get back including education if they wish to deduct that charitable contribution from their personal income taxes. Are there lots of individuals who are failing to do th...

According to Ken, virtually every Mennonite school is a tax cheat (plus lots of non-Mennonite schools), plus basically every Amish school too. You'd think if this were actually illegal that the government might have done something by now . . . . . . particularly when the government was busy trying t...

I'm still completely puzzled by anyone who claims they need Facebook to stay in touch with family and friends. Do you really have family members who steadfastly refuse to communicate via mail, phone call, email, WhatsApp, and Telegram?

Boot, respectfully, can you please stop using GPT as a source? If I wanted to chat with an AI bot, I'd go to bing.com.

The fact remains that charitable contributions to schools (including the local public schools, other private schools, and yes, the Mennonite schools) are tax-deductible and always have been. Of course they are. No one is arguing otherwise. But if you are receiving a tangible benefit (directly or in...

From my point of view, public schools provide real and direct benefits to the the entire community and society, not just those who have children in the schools. And are therefore, worth paying for even if you are childless or enroll your children in private schools. Yet if we aren't sending our chi...

It's hard to put into words how awful that document is. Of course, I'm not sure why anyone would really care what moderate-conservatives have to say about any kind of cultural change or shift like this... since moderates always eventually accept the change. One might as well ask a fox about strategi...

And again, none of this restricts donations to a church of any kind. The restriction is on claiming an itemized tax deduction for a donation that you make to a religious organization that provided you or your immediate family with any sort of substantial benefits. Church provides myself and my fami...