Art Quote by Fran Lebowitz

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them.…

— George Carlin

I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself.…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

— Henry David Thoreau

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that…

— Thomas Merton

Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

— Ed Rendell

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

— Deepak Chopra

I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their…

— Blase J. Cupich

"Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of…

— Chuck Grassley

If I were a Catholic, I'd be asking what's going on here. I really would. "The pope also broke with his predecessors by suggesting…

— Rush Limbaugh

I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol... But we need the tax money.

— Walter Allen