In fact, the $1.2T is mostly made up of money that people willingly part with to third parties because of their religions, including the charitable giving of religious people which helps to cover the general public’s unwillingness to spend tax money helping the disavdantaged
The problem is that people don’t want to pay more taxes if they are already giving money to their religious institutions. And the health care, education, and other services provided by religious institutions is inferior to government run ones because there are religious dogmas attached (no family planning in some hospitals, no covering of evolution in some schools, etc). Religious institutions should only deal with their stories of the afterlife and not worldly things.
