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...
Should I blog about the record cold in India and the Middle East to prove the alarmists are wrong? Or would we then say, "C'mon Bob, the scientists tell us you have to look at long term trends. Man you deniers are annoying."
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DeleteTo prove that the climate is undergoing drastic changes? C'mon Bob, get off the teat of the oil companies and look at what is staring us in the face!
Here it is: chatastrophic global warming that stopped 17 years ago
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That graph shows a continued upward trend since 1985!
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