Back to the Utah State Aggies Newsfeed

E.J. Dionne: The Republican Party’s tax on churches

You would be forgiven for thinking that this is a headline from The Onion or the fantasy of some left-wing website. But it's exactly what happened in the big corporate tax cut the GOP passed last year.

Now — under pressure from churches, synagogues, and other nonprofits — embarrassed leaders of a party that casts itself as religious liberty's last line of defense are trying to fix a provision that is a monument to both their carelessness and their hypocrisy.

The authors of the measure apparently didn’t even understand what they were doing — or that’s their alibi to faith groups now.