(December 10, 2014 at 11:04 am)Heywood Wrote: 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.
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How would imposing a tax make it harder to be a religious institution? Taxes haven't made businesses go away. Churches are businesses and if they earn a profit, they should pay like every other business.
A church could get out of paying taxes by giving physical charity like food or clothing to those in need(You know, doing what Jesus commanded)
We use the word church but this would apply to temples, synagogues etc.
