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In this paradigm, taxing the churches is a way to mitigate the influence that religion plays in the minds of citizens.

That might draw scorn from state regulators, whose moral flexibility on gambling tends to extend only as far as their taxing authority.

“It’s super, super taxing, hard work, but fun at the same time,” Ventimiglia said.

You write that the narrative around taxing the rich is distorted, in part, because statistics are used in misleading ways.

The tax proposal, said campaign strategist Dan Newman, “opens up a can of worms sliding down a slippery slope by taxing cars, houses, wheelbarrows and everything else.”