(April 16, 2016 at 6:54 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 16, 2016 at 4:15 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: You forgot the big one: no church member can be a politician or public official of any kind.
Would you extend that to others who don't pay taxes -- say, the poor?
Min beat me to it - the poor - depending on how you define them - pay taxes of several sorts. But even if they didn't, the cases aren't parallel. The poor (here, at least) are exempt from certain taxes because they cannot afford to pay them. Religious organisations are exempt from certain taxes even when they can afford to pay them.
Boru
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