Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?

[The Valkyrie]

If people don't pay their taxes their homes and properties are seized. Why should churches be different? At least, if that happens, the attendees still have the option of praying in their homes.

When ever you tax something....you get less of it. Want to limit consumption of cigarettes.....put a tax on cigarettes. Want to limit the use of churches....tax churches. Our country was founded on a principle that the government wouldn't do anything unnecessary to limit the exercise of religion. Our country has been getting along just fine without the need of taxing churches for hundreds of years. If we continue to maintain tax exempt status for churches...our country will continue to get along just fine. Why should we violate the founding principles of this country just to satisfy the jealousy of a few atheist?

What about the continuous attempts by church groups to infiltrate other aspects of American life: politics, education, laws?

Hundreds of church groups deliberately flouted the law by endorsing candidates from the pulpit, in direct violation of the law, and then had the nerve to flaunt it openly to the IRS in videos and emails.

But, the whole Christian privilege is so ingrained into the US psyche that politicians and the IRS refused to take action.