(December 9, 2014 at 9:45 pm)Thor Wrote:(December 9, 2014 at 9:27 pm)Heywood Wrote: By taxing churches you are adding an additional tax burden onto people for exercising religion. The first amendments forbids congress from establishing laws that unnecessarily burden people in the exercise of religion.
What? How is taxing a church a "burden onto people for exercising their religion?" Why shouldn't the church have to pay their fair share of taxes to support the local municipality? If anything, I'm subsidizing the church because the government has to get more money from me to make up for the cash they don't get from churches.
Presumably the people attending a church pay taxes, and then they are forced to pay taxes again through their church.
Remember when it comes down to it, in the final analysis it is always people who pay taxes....not property or buildings.
