Tax Guru-Ker$tetter Letter
Monday, May 17, 2004
Politics & Tax Exempt Religion
TaxProf Paul Caron has an interesting look at the issue of a church's tax exempt status and its technically illegal involvement in politics. While this current case deals with the Catholic church's problems with John Kerry, we shouldn't forget how the DemonRats have a history of using black churches as campaign vehicles. Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry have all very openly used such churches as campaign tools. Is there any wonder why we haven't seen any media outcry for those churches to have their tax exempt status revoked for violating the ban on political involvement? It doesn't take a NASA scientist to figure that out.