Churches should pay taxes. A lot of abuse would stop if they did. Also, churches not paying property taxes puts a dents in a small town's budget and someone has to fill that hole. It's the other property owners that do. Churches who don't pay taxes are thieves.
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You’re right.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
IMO, NOBODY should be paying ‘property taxes’. If you pay taxes, you don’t OWN it. Even those ‘one horse towns’ don’t need a Maj Mahal for a courthouse...
(Most) services should be paid by the party/user (not sure how that gels w/ police/others but works damn fine for fire/schools/etc.).
Course, first, govt should get out of their illegal activity to begin (welfare/’charity’), and let the community/churches do what they did best. Govt shouldn’t be fraternizing w/ religion to start.
I’d prefer we go after the ROOT, not the symptom(s)