But John on the Coast, I pay taxes & still get no representation, let the churches pay. If they support charities let them take a deduct for what they spend, just like everyone & evry corp does. They are IMHO a business & should be paying taxes too.
It is unlawful for a business to (like had been done in the past) to unduly pressure an employee to support a canidate of a political cause, same can be said for the churh ,,,,while they pay taxes.

John, I find no fault with your above graph, of course it's never so black & white. If my wife & I are in your 6.25% rate but we also pay for 2 kids to go to college, another kid who has high medical bills on top of my own high medical bills. While some single tax payer in the same bracket pays the same taxes? I want some deducts, please.

Dick, "trickle down" is exactly what it says = they eat cake while we got the crumbs! "Off with their heads".

Barry