52% of Scots ain't daft...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35953639

Probably the same ones that didn't vote for independance...

And how do you get the other 48% to wise up,,, simples, follow the German system...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11380968/Compulsory-income-tax-on-Christians-drives-Germans-away-from-Protestant-and-Catholic-churches.html

Wtf is a government doing collecting taxes on behalf of a feckin church???

Lets face it Dermo nearly all wars are about religion so who really employs the government, GOD, well David Cameron his disciple does at the moment.

There is sadly more than a grain of truth in that Kev

I jest muchbut often there is some truth in there and yes very much so.

3rdforum wrote:Wtf is a government doing collecting taxes on behalf of a feckin church???

Yip, Jesus saves and not only in Germany, although the krauts do seem to be the biggest bunch of muppets...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax

The religious groups are the biggest land owners in the world still, combined and the richest, Catholic church has probably got more gold than european bank reserves.

and the painting are worth a bob or two.

One article I read says the German tax raises €9 billion a year, paragraph below is from the Catholic Herald, it says the Catholic churches share of that in 2013 was €5.9 billion (£4.3 billion), another article I read said most of it ends up at the Vatican...

not compo to the jews then