DNC’S NEW RELIGION ADVISOR WANTS “UNDER GOD” OUT OF THE PLEDGE
DNC’S RELIGION ADVISOR SAYS: “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR” MEANS PAYING TAXES
William Donahue, President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, say the DNC’s new Senior Advisor for Religious Outreach is “a person who believes that ‘paying taxes is a way of loving your neighbor.’” Donahue cuts to the chase, “Maybe she’ll persuade Teresa Heinz Kerry to tell us how much she pays in taxes so we can get a handle on just how much the billionaire loves her neighbor.”
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Of course paying taxes (if assessed in a proportionate amount for just uses) can be an act of love for one’s neighbor.
The virtue of solidarity is the social form of the virtue of charity, and paying just taxes – or fulfilling any of one’s social obligations – exercises it.
Now, I disagree with the DNC about what’s a just use of the taxpayers’ money, or about the right level and method of taxing to raise the money that the state may need.
If the taxes are unjustly spent or assessed, then those who impose them upon the oppressed deserve not a halo for their holiness but rather rebuke for their greed.