I don't know about taxing churches, but I was pissed off that when I had to buy the building permit for my house they nailed me $600 extra for a "Catholic school fund", which basically goes to rebuild the local Catholic grade school when the time comes that it needs to be done. (this is in Canada)
Seems stupid that even though I send my kids to public school that I should have to pay my tax dollars to help rebuild the local Catholic school. Thankfully John Tory never got in when he was running for premier in the last election as he wanted to fund religious schools for every faith (muslim, etc.) to be fair, since they were already doing it for the Catholics. That secured his fate in the election pretty quick! One stupid religious tax is enough!
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