… [The following excerpt is from my book, “Rescuing Religion from Republican Reason.”] “An income tax is the most degrading and totalitarian of all possible taxes. Its implementation wrongly suggests that the government owns the lives and labor of the citizens it is supposed to represent. Tellingly, ‘a heavy progressive or graduated income tax’ is… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Fair Tax
Why Huckabee’s “Fair Tax” is so unfair (and un-Christian)
As Mike Huckabee ramps up his 2016 presidential campaign, we’re going to hear him speak quite a bit about abolishing the IRS, eliminating income tax, and implementing a consumption tax that he and others call, “The Fair Tax.” Instead of having income tax, we would have a hefty national sales tax. Those who wrote the… Read more »
