What are your best reasons to tax religion?

grrrrrwolf: What are your best reasons to tax religion?
Being tax exempt is essentially government (tax-payers) financing religion; these groups get the same quality of security and infrastructure as tax-payers. Sounds like support for religion to me.

What about the abandoned churches that the government cannot confiscate, because no tax is overdue, that turn into havens for drugs? Ironic, but not if you truly understand the bloodsucking nature of religion on society.

Super(duper)natural leaders should be a able contribute to the society they intend to control.

Actually we (the government) are getting stuck twice. Until we add a sales tax on people buying their particular brand of religion, I won’t be happy.

Answers and Views:

Answer by kiahsobyk .
Amendment 1.

…oh, wait.

Answer by Ethan
Tax religion because religion is a burden on social progress.

Answer by Drohski
haha!
religion and politics
lolololz

get off your knees america

Answer by Michael K
For when they forward or fund political events, laws or politicians (personal funding excluded).

Answer by Douglas
why not all non profit organizations they are the highest profiting businesses

Answer by zaatheist
They are businesses, very profitable business and should be taxed like all other businesses.

Answer by PaulCyp
Put religion out of business by taxing a non-profit organization, and the state will have to provide everything that churches now provide, especially for the poor, which will cost the state millions annually – far more than they could ever collect in taxes.

Answer by jimmy_cathey_1030
Isn’t it amazing how self-pitying and self-aggrandizing the religious freaks in this country are? It’s not enough that they can make straight-faced professions of “faith” at election times and impose their language on everything from the Pledge of Allegiance to the currency. It’s not enough that they can claim tax exemption and even subsidy for anything “faith-based.” It’s that when they are even slightly criticized for their absurd opinions, they can squeal as if being martyred and act as if they are truly being persecuted.

Answer by Joseph
Christians have decided to become a political party. Tax them like all political parties.

Answer by Miguel
The clergy enjoy the same paved roads, police service, and public education as everyone else who pays tax.

It has also been grossly misused as a tax loophole for money scams.

Answer by Lord Butters
If they take tax-sponsored stuff (they do) without paying taxes, then they’re forcing everyone to pay for it, which is a flagrant violation of freedom of religion. And freedom in general honestly.

Now if they were consuming no tax-supported resources then we could talk, but since they use roads and all that other stuff they’re freeloading.

I HATE freeloaders.

Answer by Bfract
I’d rather outlaw religion altogether, but if that doesn’t work there is no reason religious organizations should continue to get a free ride just because they prop themselves up with some imaginary deity.

Answer by Peabody
To equate a tax exemption with a tax subsidy is simply liberal madness. Sounds very much like the way Hitler looted the synagogues before he started murdering the Jews. Can’t your buddies in big government restrain their craven kleptomania?

As far as contributing to society, are you entirely ignorant of the fact that it’s the churches who feed the poor, house the homeless, respond the disaster victims, rehabilitate the addict and the criminal? Of course you aren’t. You just choose to be mendacious. I know the type.

Answer by Follows Jesus
none religion can not be taxed because it is not selling any thing

it is not selling a product and making money off of it

it is tax exempt and the government does not give any money to religion

to finance some thing means you have to give it money.

the government does not give any church’s money

church’s do not become havens for drugs

people give to the church willingly
if people do not want to give to a church that is their choice

people can not tell others what to do with their money or who they can and can not give their money too

Answer by Socrates1944
If you reside in the United States of America,any form of taxation is illegal (Read your Constitution).If you reside in Australian,taxation is absolutely unnecessary.