Attention Getter For Informative Speech

Informative Presentation- preparation Outline

Topic: Should churches remain tax exempt?
General purpose: To inform
Specific purpose: To inform my audience about the pro and cons about remain tax exempt
Central idea: While for churches they do not have to pay tax because they provide needed service for the government they must to pay it because they also are making profit.
Introduction
Attention – Getter. The bible relates that when the Pharisees asked Jesus whether, it was permissible to pay taxes to Caesar; Jesus replied that one should render into Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and into God the things that is God’s.
Reveal the topic: Should it be requirement that all churches have to be remaining tax exempt.
Audience
Main point
It has been assumed from the foundation of our country that churches should remain tax exempt. According to Kentucky State Representative Whittaker summed up the sentiment nicely when he said, “Let an untaxed Gospel be preached, in an untaxed church house, from an untaxed pulpit; let the emblem of a crucified, but risen Christ be administered from an untaxed altar, and, as the spire points heavenward, . . . let it stand forever untaxed.”
A. Churches, as nonprofit organizations, are exempt from taxes not because of the public benefits and needed service that churches provide, although these are also reasons for exemption. Rather, it is their very existence as non-profit entities that justify church tax exemption. In this book, Why Churches Should Not Pay Taxes Dean Kelley makes a powerful argument. He states, “Other entities, which are not in the wealth producing category to begin with [such as churches], do not need to explain why they are not taxed any more than do the birds of the air or the rivers that flow to the sea. . . . [Taxation] would be pointless, since they are not in any meaningful sense producers of
Now however we must look at the cons side of remain tax exempt on churches.
2. Main point 2
America’s tax laws are designed to favor non-profit and charitable institutions which presumably benefit the community. Churches, however, tend to benefit the most from the various tax exemptions available, in particular because they qualify for many of them automatically, whereas non-religious groups have to go through a more complicated application and approval process. Non-religious groups also have to be more accountable for where their money goes, while churches, in order to avoid possibly excessive entanglements between church and state, do not have to submit financial disclosure statements.
A. That is why however you see it. Tax exemptions are a problem. Not only are citizens forced to indirectly support religious organizations, but some groups benefit much more than others, resulting in problematic religious