[sclarisse]

1. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and,

2. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

If you want to amend the Constitution that’s another matter.

[drsnow]

It is neither respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof, to require that they pay taxes to support the society which allows them, as of now absurdly for free, to function and exist in the very first place.

[tedajax]

That seems like an extremely daft interpretation of what taxation is.

[sclarisse]

Tell that to Chief Justice John Marshall (McCulloch v Maryland, 1819.)