Why the U.S. Doesn’t Tax Churches

The reason we don’t tax religions isn’t that we think they need to be subsidized.  Rather, it’s that we don’t want what the Supreme Court (in its better days) deemed to be “excessive entanglement” between the church and state.  The thinking:  keep Congress a million miles away from the affairs of our churches.  Seems legit, IMO.

True, this means that churches have that much more power to prey upon idiots, which is regrettable in the extreme.  But we prefer that to an assault against our First Amendment.