Madam, – I commend Andrew Peregrine’s suggestion (January 28th) of having people declare themselves as belonging to a Christian church (or any other faith for that matter) and pay a percentage of their own income tax to a fund that is divided between all the prospective churches and groups.
Let the churches and their communities find funding from their membership and leave our taxes alone. I sign up to my chosen groups, I pay my trade union dues and my political party membership fees and if the Government in a petty attempt to rattle the unions, chooses to withdraw the small tax relief my union dues accrues, then why shouldn’t the religious organisations lose their government-cushioned benefits as well?
This is a secular society we live in after all, or so I am led to believe. – Yours, etc,