One of the interesting things about the church I grew up with is that the church constitution strictly limited how you can ask for money for the church fund - o

One of the interesting things about the church I grew up with is that the church constitution strictly limited how you can ask for money for the church fund - only once per week at the first Sunday service. This was obviously very limiting, but strictly defining what cash flows were acceptable also (in my eyes) helped prevent a lot of the greed and prosperity focus that infects many other churches. I can’t help but wonder whether authors of constitutions would see benefit to strictly defining what income flows are acceptable. The founding fathers in the US took a few steps in this direction by strictly* defining what kinds of federal taxes were acceptable, but didn't really go beyond that. *Maybe too strictly - economists generally agree that apportioning all your taxes is a bad idea because it can be pretty regressive, and we needed amendments to get around that for income tax.