If you are I form a non-profit organization and use that organization, e.g.the NRA, to make political statements and all of a sudden we are taxable.
What sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If some churhc claims to be a non-profit, then uses the pulpit to politicize, it should be a taxable entity.
This has nothing to do with free speech in this context, just equality of treatment before the law.
An interesting point and one I have wondered about which probably has a simple answer that I don't see. If the law gives a tax break to one group, say homeowners, then all in that group are treated equally. What about those outside that group? Were they treated equally to those inside it?
The FairTax is a VERY clear example of that and it boosts the economy of he country and benefits individual taxpayers as well.
If you are I form a non-profit organization and use that organization, e.g.the NRA, to make political statements and all of a sudden we are taxable.
Under the constitution political speech cannot be made taxable.
That my blind friend is a charge on the freedom speech. a lien on an unalienable right to be guaranteed under the Constitution.
Congress can make no law, is a clear prohibition against such regulation whether it is a church, or the NRA, or any peaceful assembly of individual exercising their clear and unalienable rights.
This has nothing to do with free speech in this context, just equality of treatment before the law.
It has everything to do with free speech and assembly in all contexts. Just and equal treatment requires that none be taxed in the exercise of inalienable rights, especially that such are so clearly held in guarantee under the Bill of Rights.