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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (148331)10/20/2004 7:37:17 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
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Absolutely. No question. If a church is not willing to abide by public law, it should not accept public money. Or other public benefits, such as tax exemption, which is effectively a subsidy.

I maybe could agree about the public funds, but not about the tax exception. Removing the tax exemption would actually be reducing the separation of church and state as it would be getting the state much more involved in the church's business, esp with the complex and inventive ladden tax codes we have today. The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Tim
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