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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Tax Supported" Churches.
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 20:30:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 20:30:14 1985
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> In article <584@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
> ...
> >I feel that all non-profit organizations and corporations should be
> >tax-exempt, and churches which do not make a profit, but re-invest into
> >charitable and missionary pursuits, should be considered non-profit
> >corporations.  To give the government the right to declare a religion "a
> >non-religion" is a frightening, Orwellian power.
> 
> And the power to tax religion isn't?  What kind of government representation
> are religious groups going to get for their tax money?

Churches benefit from services provided through taxation. No one is represented
by taxation. If you want representation, go out and vote.
  
Padraig Houlahan.