My assertions are scripture-less, true, but they are still biblical.
How can your assertions be scripture-less, but still biblical? If they don't come from the bible, THEY ARE SCRIPTURE-LESS.
Love your neighbor, and when your neighbor is poor, do not burden him with laborious taxation. Instead, take it upon yourself to
pay what the poor man cannot.
We don't PAY taxes. Taxes are taken from us by the threat of the law (jail). Besides that, the poor in America get more tax money back (payroll tax refunds) then they pay in AND they get welfare which is paid for with tax dollars. Paying taxes doesn't make me a Christian and prove that I love my neighbor. Paying taxes prove I am a law abiding citizen.
@tom55
The reason you see me as generally conservative is that I support Christian morality and
do not support the welfare state.
You don't support the welfare state? Isn't the progressive tax system that you support welfare? The poor pay less tax in payroll taxes or get refunds that exceed what they paid into the system. The definition of welfare: aid in the form of money or necessities for those in need. An agency or program through which such aid is distributed.
The IRS is an agency of the government and it distributes money to the poor. Since you don't support the welfare state does that mean you don't support the food stamp
program?
Minimum wage should be left as is. Just don't move it.
So 20 years from now the minimum wage should still be $7.25 an hour? Based on your logic you would have no problem if we left it "as is" when it was $5.15 an hour back in 1997 or thirty cents an hour back in 1939? Are you really a progressive? As you (should) know, most employee's are already paid higher than the minimum wage.
I think that socialism is the only reason why Europe hasn't died yet.
Socialism is what is killing Europe. That is why they are trying to rein it in. They are taking from the capitalist (money producers) to support the socialist. That is why "Europe hasn't died yet" because the capitalist are keeping it alive.
Finally, I don't think the government would take the extra taxes and reduce the debt.
Then why do you want to give them more? It's like giving drugs to an addict. Why haven't you given the government more? I articulated in an earlier post that there is a IRS form you can fill out to gift money to the government. If you truly believe what you say then back it up with action. I don't think you truly believe what you are saying. I think you are just stirring the pot!!