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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
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Subject: Re: "Tax Supported" Churches.
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Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 15:33:23 EDT
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> 
> How long am I going to have to go on repeating myself?  Taxing the Church
> subordinates it to the State.  What right does the State have to do this?
> Church and State do not *grant* each other anything!  The State does
> not *favor* religion by offering tax exemption.  It has no right to tax
> in the first place!

Suppose I send off $25 and have myself declared a priest; should this 
automatically exclude me from being taxable (I'm assuming here that you mean
the state has no right to tax the church)?

Padraig Houlahan.