Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and founding director of the Notre Dame Program on Church,State & Society.
Instead of asking whether churches and religious organizations deserve to be tax-exempt, we should request why governments should be able to tax them at all. Taxation, or after all,involves interference by the state, and in a free society such interference needs to be justified.
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Source: washingtonpost.com