There's no need to regulate religion. Just remove the special treatment - tax-free shouldn't be a given for a religious group, just because they're a religious group. They should also be subject to the same kind of scrutiny that any other company is subject to. Beyond that, existing laws should already take care of the real issues.
| Munchies said: Government is never the answer. Let society rearrange itself and you'll get the optimal result. Besides, taxing is straight-up looting. No entity should ever pay taxes. |
The only people who ever make these suggestions are people who don't have any knowledge of game theory.
Game theory demonstrates why, without some form of government, society would NOT be optimal at all. Even something as simple as two people making independent decisions can result in a worse result for both than if they coordinate. Look into Prisoner's Dilemma, and think about its implications for your viewpoint.
Also, if society were forced to operate on the basis of your idea, including the tax argument, the result would be that roads would only go as far as the company that is building it wants it to go, schools and hospitals would only be built in rich areas, and the entire country would be overrun by those who envy its resources, as there would be no army to defend it. The poor would be locked into a downward spiral, there would be no form of public transport (meaning that only those who could afford cars would be able to travel), the majority of the public would be living without safe drinking water or any form of power, and there would be no publicly-available, free resources where people could learn things (libraries). Those are just a few of the problems with your idea.
Of course, your idea will never happen, anyway. Any attempt to implement it will necessarily fail, for the same reason as why attempts to implement communism inevitably fail. It is inherently unstable, as "no government" very quickly turns into "dictatorship".
