Donald Trump had recently finished a familiar riff about banning gender transition surgery for children when the former president, speaking to an audience of Evangelical voters, moved on to something new: a policy that would affect transgender adults.
“I will ban all taxpayer funding for sex or gender transitions at any age,” said Trump, receiving thunderous applause at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington last month. The Republican leader, who moments earlier had also pledged to reinstate a ban on transgender men and women serving in the military, paused for several seconds to soak in the crowd’s adulation.
It’s the kind of moment — and the type of policy — increasingly common on the GOP presidential campaign trail this year.
If what it really came down to for people is “taxpayer spending,” then forcing churches to pay taxes should be a front and center issue for conservatives.
But it’s not. Gee I wonder why.
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Because if churches paid their fair share for all the freebies they get, the average person can pay less in taxes because they stop paying the churches share? How do you do not get this?