>>Capital gains tax only applies to land bought after some time...

>>Capital gains tax only applies to land bought after some time in 1985. Most religious land was bought, or given, long before that.<<

We pay them rent, they don't pay the tax on that income. They should be.

'Besides religions are not businesses.'

yeah right, just keep telling yourself that.
'Walks like a duck'

Have a look at the first coin opperated machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vending_machine

>>What you describe is nothing like the religion I am involved with.<<

In general everyone should pay tax, it's only fair.

If religions only made money from donations and no other business ventures they would have never existed in the first place.