I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
Let Catholics build their own churches and works.
Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
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.
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.
What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.
Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.
The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.