[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.