[CountDrewku]

Why? What do we need that money for? If you don't like it then just don't go to church and the problem is solved. Obviously less people are attending so it sounds like it'll just solve itself in the future. No one is making anyone attend church and give offerings. It's just letting the government double dip on taxes at that point. Everything given to a church is essentially a donation to begin with and you want to have it taxed a second time after the church gets it?

It's a waste of time to tax them and it's not going to be used for anything helpful in this country. After seeing where the US government is blowing our tax money on these supposed "stimulus" bills I can't understand why anyone would support taxing more things in this country.

[JumpCrisscross]

> It's a waste of time to tax them and it's not going to be used for anything helpful in this country

If this is the best argument for not taxing churches, then I switch positions and say tax them and reduce my taxes. (But do it properly, which likely requires some Constitutional hand wringing.)

[CountDrewku]

That'll never happen and you know it. It'll be tax the church and your taxes will continue to rise. It's just as silly as the idea that taxing the rich more will reduce your tax.

How about you just leave the churches alone and admit you're being biased because you dislike religion? The burden is on you to prove we need that tax money for something since you're proposing a change to something that's been in place since the US's inception and is a main tenet of the constitution.

And there's also the MAIN reason which is the fact that it's expressly against the 1st amendment since it would give the government the free reign to tax any religion it dislikes out of existence and break church/state separation.