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Government Can’t Require Churches to Abandon Constitutional Freedoms

The_Nerd_Warrior Wrote: Oct 20, 2012 6:46 PM

Actually, the idea that churches can be taxed for exercising free speech - and the obvious unconstitutionality of it - holds further ramifications. Like how any and all income tax is a tax on labor. If your labor involves any constitutionally granted freedoms, you're being taxed for it. Security guard? You're being taxed to bear arms. Journalist? Tax on the press. Stockbroker? Tax on free association. The list is ENDLESS. Income tax has to go, along with withholding, deductions, and graduated rates. Tax consumption instead - or shrink the government enough that it can rely on DONATIONS. (Heh, that'll be the day...)

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Government Can’t Require Churches to Abandon Constitutional Freedoms

In the wake of the most successful Pulpit Freedom Sunday to date, a look at opponents who have commented publicly about the event in recent days shows that they are still attacking it for something it’s clearly not. In other words, the arguments against Pulpit Freedom Sunday fail because the premise for those arguments is all wrong.

This year, as part of the event, nearly 1,600 pastors nationwide preached sermons that analyzed the positions of various political candidates—an exercise in free speech that violates a flawed Internal Revenue Service rule known as the Johnson Amendment. The goal is to...

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