01-19-2017, 11:42 AM
(01-19-2017, 07:50 AM)Odin Wrote:(01-18-2017, 09:26 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Indeed. Those of true character will donate to charity themselves, rather than trying to force others to do it through taxes at the point of a gun. And they won't brag about it.
So we poors can never have "true character" is what you are saying?
No - but it what it does mean is that any aid to them must at least carry the appearance/stigma of being "charity" - as packaging health care to the low-income uninsured as "charity care" would do, and preferably funding it in some fashion that can be sold as "regressive."
Speaking of which, how about bringing back the Federal Excise Tax? If it was a good enough to fund the Spanish-American War ... and this time around it can be extended to include an item whose purchase is heavily skewed toward the lowest income groups: Prepaid phone cards.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892