Though cutting costs demands flexibility and unremitting attention to detail, business owners pay attention because they increase their income with every cost they cut. Non-profit cost cutting benefits no one in particular. In effect they waste their tax advantage. Finally, one should set economics aside and consider whether letting the state tax non-profits might undermine religious liberty. Though the religious target changes form time to time, government hostility to religion has been historical constant.
Religious organizations constitute a large fraction of the state's non-profit sector.
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