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Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn't real philanthropy; that's just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.