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Paycheck Protection, Churches And The Constitution – It’s Complicated

There are cases where I assume the professors would agree that churches may receive public services. I suspect that they do not object when local police or fire departments respond to problems at church buildings. By the same token, one could envision public policies so targeted at religious institutions that no plausible First Amendment justification can be proferred for them. There would, for example, be no tenable constitutional defense if Congress adopted a program exclusively subsidizing clerical salaries.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.