Mike_Garrick wrote:
When did separation of church and state disappear?
In the year 1913, when the 16th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect.
"Wikipedia Article"Quote:
The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. This amendment exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes...
It seems to me that Income Taxes were made exempt from the 1st Amendment, which prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion or impeding the free exercise of religion.
I guess that taxation of religious institutions was considered too much of an impediment to the free exercise thereof...
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