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How would taxing churches the same as everyone else interfere with religious liberty?
by brazzy 3y ago
How would taxing churches the same as everyone else interfere with religious liberty?
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoI agree with you. The way things are setup now, religion gets all sorts of special dispensations. To do this, government has to determine what is a real religion and what is not, which sounds to me like it goes directly against the separation between church and state. Religion should be treated the same as any other belief structure. I realize this doesn’t apply directly to taxation but we defer to religion in multiple ways in the law.
- smitty1e 3y ago"That the power to tax involves the power to destroy" https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=3816&context=mulr https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?re...
- brazzy 3y agoThat is not an answer to my question.
- smitty1e 3y agoSuch power will be abused, if recent history is any guide.
- brazzy 3y agoEven if that were more than a meaningless platitude, why do churches need to be protected against that more than everyone else?
- smitty1e 3y agoChurches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples are the source of moral glue holding society together. The ongoing societal cratering about us will only be hastened by levying taxes on them. But perhaps that's the goal?
- brazzy 3y agoThe "ongoing societal cratering" is led by the most vocally religious people. Religious institutions may be some kind of glue, but certainly not a moral one.