pop morality

[athrock]

Who do the schools belong to if not the citizens who paid for them? So, yeah...equal access to the use of the facilities.

Which is a far cry from allowing Muslim or Christian groups to teach to children, of course. We're talking about weekends and evenings when the buildings are not being used. Picking up a few bucks in rent for the use of a building that is otherwise sitting idle seems like a pretty good use of the taxpayer's property.

Oh, one more point...I personally think that if the government wants to tax churches, it can and should do so. Churches don't make much of a profit, so I don't know how much revenue that would really generate for the US Treasury, but if it gives haters one less reason to whine, then I'm for it.

Of course, that ought to go for all non-profits equally including Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace among others.

As I said, there are churches practically on every street corner in the US.  So there is no need to insist upon religious use of school buildings.
As of 2013, it was estimated that taxing churches would bring in between 71-83.5 billion dollars in revenue per year.  Some websites think that number is ridiculously low.  
Here is a site that presents both sides of the issue:  http://churchesandtaxes.procon.org/

#12 is pretty amusing. According to a quick Google search, the average Catholic priest earns about:

1. $33,279 a year. Those in New York City also make more than most, averaging $45,125 a year, while an Atlanta-based priest can expect a salary of $40,149 a year. The same, however, can't be said for Catholic priests in Dallas, Texas, where salaries average out at $33,279 a year.