St. Paul and I Agree...
Taxation is not theft: "Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves." -- Romans 13 The key idea implicit here, and the one that turned me on the subject of whether or not taxation is theft, is that "every soul" owes obedience to the "governing authorities." Now, if that is a debt I truly owe , then, when those authorities levy the taxes they need to do the job of governing, I owe them those taxes, and attempts to collect them certainly do not constitute acts of theft. And obviously it doesn't matter at all, from this point of view, whether or not I "signed" any sort of "social contract." (In fact, the history of political thought since the Reformation can be read as an attempt to find a secular rep...
Pretty damning, I`d say. But I still imagine that if she weren`t running with McCain she`d be opposed to this horrific bailout that McCain and Obama are both supporting.
ReplyDeletePlease do not misunderstand me: She looks like a complete idiot in these clips, and she has no business running for office.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if she got the number of US states wrong (Obama), or said that FDR went on TV to explain the stock market crash of 1929 to the American people (Biden), either of those would have been considered her stupidest statements yet.
Very true, Bob.
ReplyDeleteHer heads full of bubbles, but she has enough sense to eschew facts and specific answers.
"Facts are stupid things."
Ronald Reagan