10. If you removed the excemption on churches paying taxes,
you wouldn't get a whole lot of tax money out of it.
I have served on church finance committees. I've never been on one of a church which made any money.
In fact, every church I've ever served on has had a month to month fight to balance its budgets. The pastor and other staff routinely go a month during the summer without pay or a month behind on pay because giving drops so much during the summer.
If you're thinking that churches make oodles of money, you're wrong. There might be a few mega-churches, but I'd even doubt that. I'd bet even the churches on TV are in debt up to their noses.
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