The United States of America was founded by people who were escaping persecution because their beliefs were not mainstream in their fatherland.
I think you're wrong here. The first settlers in the US were trying to escape religious persecution, but that was way before 1776. The revolution wasn't about England imposing religious beliefs on the colonists, it was about England imposing taxes on the colonists without any say.
And those first settlers? They were Puritans who thought that the English church was too liberal, not liberal churchgoers who were persecuted because they were too liberal.
Clearly a majority of the people would vote for such if it were proposed as a proposition. Again, I doubt that this is true. I would be very surprised if a majority of people would approve of removing tax-exempt status from religious organizations.
I wasn't talking about the revolution, but the constitutional convention. But in fact taxation without representation is relevant too. We who are married recently in California are taxed by the state as if we were married, but by the Federal government as if we are single. If marriage laws are left up to the states, then the Feds should recognize our status as married. We are also victim to taxes on health insurance as imputed tax if our partner works and we obtain insurance through them.
As for voting for revoking tax-exempt status, many people are now discussing it here and if there are benefits to the states during this low revenue period, many more may consider it.
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I think you're wrong here. The first settlers in the US were trying to escape religious persecution, but that was way before 1776. The revolution wasn't about England imposing religious beliefs on the colonists, it was about England imposing taxes on the colonists without any say.
And those first settlers? They were Puritans who thought that the English church was too liberal, not liberal churchgoers who were persecuted because they were too liberal.
Clearly a majority of the people would vote for such if it were proposed as a proposition.
Again, I doubt that this is true. I would be very surprised if a majority of people would approve of removing tax-exempt status from religious organizations.
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As for voting for revoking tax-exempt status, many people are now discussing it here and if there are benefits to the states during this low revenue period, many more may consider it.
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in the course of This Pre Election Day Interview about Prop.8,
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