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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Violation of separation church and state????
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 18:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 17 18:36:00 1985
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>/* nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) /  7:13 am  May 16, 1985 */

>PS. I also agree with churches being automatically tax exempt.  If they
>are non-profit, let them prove it, if they are running a profit, let it
>be taxed like any other corporation.
>-- 
>James C Armstrong, Jnr.   ihnp4!abnji!nyssa


That churches are tax exempt is not bad.  However, the fact that everyone
else has to pay taxes is.  This state of affairs does constitute a 
violation of the establishment clause, but the solution is not to tax
churches, but rather to eliminate taxes for everyone else.

						Mike Sykora