Should Religious Places of Worship Pay Taxes?

[Ferris Bueller]

Lets start another debate guys.

Now since most intelligent people on here are athiest I would think this would be biased. Here goes anyways.



To start this debate, we need some definitions. What are taxes? "a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc." dicitionary.reference.com

Why do we pay taxes? https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p2105.pdf

Basically people pay taxes so that the government can supply them with things they can't afford. I.E Health care, roads, schools, etc...

Churches in America have been tax-exempt since its founding. Is this right?

Now churches are defined as non-profit organizations. They run on donations from people. They don't generate profit by selling and what not.

I believe that, just like any other non-profit organization, churches should not be taxed.