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Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres), perhaps the Pope can grace us all by paying property taxes from this point onward? The church's unimaginable wealth should be able to cover it... everybody else manages it somehow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands
I'd also guess that the Russian and Canadian governments are up there.
And the farthest west you go, the more the federal government owns lands. In some states like Nevada, the state only owns a small portion of their state land.
This caused a lot of problems when the state courts tried to protect Native American lands being leveled by the Trump admin because of his bullshit wall but the federal government just outright ignored them.
That's not anybody! I will be more specific, the Catholic church owns more land than any other private organization on Earth, but yes governments own more, and can seize land from the Catholics, too. It's happened before.
Russia being a dictatorship implies they have total unquestionable control of all of Russian territory, which would put them at the top of the list by a lot.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/07/24/vatican-owns-over-5000-properties-worldwide-it-reveals-in-first-disclosures-on-its-real-estate-holdings/
That's not an anybody! Anyway, let me be more pedantic for you... they own more property than any other private organization on the planet Earth (of the Sol system).
Fun, semi-related fact: the Mormons own approximately 2% of Florida.
Yes, they had a late start, Catholic church has been around for over a thousand years, Mormons need to catch up.
Still, they are doing rather well with around 2 million (sources vary) acres, the fifth largest landowner in USA. That's very impressive, not paying taxes helps them a great deal financially.
Ask L. Ron Hubbard
Are enough people going to church nowadays to warrant the big cash flows, as in the past? Went home to a family reunion last year and my aunt/uncles 8 children were raised catholic and went to church every Sunday. Discovered none of the kids, or their kids, go to church anymore.
They're losing membership, but they have been unimaginably wealthy since the Middle Ages, they'll be fine. Not paying taxes helps, of course.
(that's just for the USA, they could be gaining membership elsewhere)
what? the vatican is larger than the US? aahahahahahahahahaha
Did you know the Catholic church is much larger than the Vatican? IT'S TRUE
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/07/24/vatican-owns-over-5000-properties-worldwide-it-reveals-in-first-disclosures-on-its-real-estate-holdings/
ha hahaha hahaha hahahaha haaahaahahahahahaha
if the vatican has more property than Russia and even all of BRICs combined, 😃