POLITICS: Keep pastoral tax

Pastors and other religious figures have always been able to voice their political opinions from the pulpit. But unlike ordinary citizens they receive tax-free status. This is a government subsidy, plain and simple. If they want to use the pulpit for promoting any political agenda, conservative, liberal or otherwise, they are free to do it. They just have to assume some personal responsibility and cough up the subsidy. But many of these people want to have their cake and eat it too, and when they find they can’t double dip on the rest of us they cry foul. Spare me. For a group that spends so much time and hot air exhorting us to take responsibility, how many of them practice what they preach?

STEPHEN BRUNO

Dalton Gardens