Trump in Iowa: President calls for barring immigrants from welfare for five years

I'm ok with disbanding welfare all together. The system is broken, I personally know people able to travel to Euro-Disney, but "unable to work"...

Churches are tax exempt and estimates say that's about $82 Billion a year in tax revenue.

What do we get in return for this subsidy? Huge buildings and traffic problems on Sunday morning.

Not what God intended... "Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's"
-Mathew 22.

Most towns of any size have three churches and they bicker about each other, I don't think anyone goes to all three, and there are plenty of people of faith (like myself) that don't go to any of them... time to quit subsidizing other people's beliefs.

SPC David Hannaman - I'm going to ignore all the religious questions in your response for now and address the taxing of churches. I think it's a bad idea, because taxing churches requires changing their not-for-profit corporation status with the IRS and the States. If the Federal Government or State Governments attempted this there would be a gigantic class-action law suit that would stall the action in courts for decades. Church not-for-profits cannot be treated differently from other not-for-profit corporations under the provisions of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. If by chance, all not-for-profits are taxed, then many other organizations outside of churches would be taxed, sometimes with negative results for people who need their help. Not-for-profits include large corporations like the Red Cross, United Way, Goodwill Industries, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, major hospitals such as Barnes-Jewish where I live, and thousand of small charitable and benevolent organizations and foundations. Small organizations impact our everyday life including High School sports team support groups, foundations that grant scholarships and aide such as Optimists, Grange, and Masons. Also operating as not-for-profit corporations are foundations established by wealthy sports and public figures, including everybody's favorite, the Clinton (Crime Family) Foundation.

Simple principle of taxation: if you tax something, you will get less of it; if you do not tax or decrease tax on something, you will get more of it. I believe if you tax not-for-profit corporations, you will have fewer or smaller such corporations to the determent of all.

Yes, thank you. This is already the case.

I check and it is now 10 years.

1stSgt Nelson Kerr - you beat me to it...

I agree 100%!