While you keep voting for politicians who support the Church just for votes, it will always be the same, corruption breeds corruption, they're hand in glove and very rich and comfortable together, after all, who are the poor, neither camp gives a shit who they are as long as they don't have to subsidize them!

It's ironic that they don't pay taxes because the IRS considers them a charity. So if all that money is earmarked for charitable purposes how is the Vatican bank sitting on billions in profits at any given moment? How do televangelists have tens of millions for mansions and private jets?

Every once in awhile they'll put on a bake sale so they can say "Look, we're a charity."

You might tax the income of church employees but churches themselves make no profit to tax. They take donations and a lot of that is generally redistributed to the community. It would be like taxing the Red Cross.

The white IRS inset leads me to think they are talking about all tax exemptions and subsidies (farm subsidies?), not just churches. If so this is yet one more example of someone’s sleazy, dishonest attempt to promote their personal hateful agenda.

Using that logic, if only the IRS paid a 50% tax on the money it takes in we could all retire and live a life of ease and luxury.