Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?

[Heywood]

I don't see what this has got to do with the first amendment. It's a business, pay tax. Am I missing something?

The First Amendment forbids the state from making laws which unnecessarily impedes the free exercise of religion. Levying a tax on churches make it harder for people to produce them and maintain them. This is equivalent to impeding the free exercise of religion.

Now if you can show that it is necessary for the state to levy taxes against churches in order to govern then perhaps you have a case. But since the government has been able to govern perfectly well for the hundreds of years that churches have been tax exempt, I don't think it very likely you will be able to make a compelling case.