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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
If you taxed churches, this would enable them to overtly push political causes. It's certainly a problem now, but you could go even further into having church leaders just come out and say "It's a sin to vote Democrat."

Taxing churches would also challenge the status of any other nonprofit. Churches don't operate any differently than the YMCA or Ducks Unlimited, so if a church had to pay taxes, why not also them? 

Disagree with the message all you want, but having churches in communities is a positive, and fewer churches are a negative.

I can't speak for all Christians, but I would see this as the State explicitly punishing religious belief and a policy change not because it's the right thing to do but a move merely to punish political opponents.
gpt
&gt; this would enable them to overtly push political causes.

They already do that now with impunity, despite it being against their tax exempt status.