IF a religion said: "thy shall not pay taxes"

Originally posted by mwm1331
Doesn't matter the legal principle is the same. If a given religons precepts violate U.S. law then freedom of religon des not apply. The only reason an exception was made for the Native American church on the issue of peyote is that Native American tribes are independant nations. Also the only people who can take advantage of the peyote exemption are those who are at least 1/4 native American and the worshp must tke place on a reservation. The rastfarians believe that smoking marijuana is thier religons proscribed way of worship but there is no marijuana exemption for rasta's. The mormons believe in polygamy but there is no exemption for mormons. If a religon says "pay no taxes" the U.S. gov will say "You have the right to worship any god you wish but you as an American citizen still have to pay."

So yes it is a yes or no awnser and the awnser is no, you will always have to pay taxes.

good answer and now i know the answer...

but for me it is still not fair...