Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?

[Jenny A]

I don't see that you'd do anything you don't do already. And that's the point. At least we'd tax the dollars once before the headed to the
Vatican.

In my opinion nobody should get a deduction for charitable giving. Be it to Doctors Without Boarders or the LDS.

The tax code should be simple. You earn this much, you pay this much in tax.

I agree in particular for wage earners. I don't think social engineering via deduction is a good idea still less very "special" tax deductions meant to fit a single lobbying tax payer. However, having spent more time than I care to admit pouring over the tax code, I'm here to tell you that much of the complexity is no more than a feeble attempt to keep up with human ingenuity at disguising income and inflating expenses. Corporate business forms aid the ability to disguise income. Calculating how much money a business makes is never going to be easy or simple, unless the owner is very simple and wants very much to pay exactly as much as they owe. Unfortunately few tax payers fit that description.