[jas3]

THE POWER TO TAX IS THE POWER TO DESTROY!!! TAXING CHURCHES IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IDEA!!

Even if one agrees with you, then doesn't that imply that taxing everybody except churches makes all non-church taxpayers more likely to be destroyed?

My preference would be to tax businesses and churches for the services they use (fire, police, courts) and to not tax anybody at all for anything else.

jas3

[Clump]

[T]hen doesn't that imply that taxing everybody except churches makes all non-church taxpayers more likely to be destroyed?

The government generally has no interest in destroying run of the mill taxpayers. Why would they kill their golden goose? I am concerned about giving the government the ability to destroy institutions and religious expression through taxation. I am not worried about Bush and this Congress, but future leaders.