[The following excerpt is from my book, “Rescuing Religion from Republican Reason.”] Capital Gains Taxes I’ve heard some Christian Republicans say it’s morally wrong to tax capital gains, as if it doesn’t count as income. This is nonsense. Let’s say you buy a restaurant for a million dollars. You own it for five years and… Read more »
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Republican Tax Lie #3: “Democrats spend more.”
… [The following excerpt is from my book, “Rescuing Religion from Republican Reason.”] (I’ll admit that this is more of a budget lie than a tax lie, but it’s what follows next in the taxation chapter of the book, so I included it here.) The Republicans love to accuse Democrats of engaging in out-of-control spending…. Read more »
Why the Republican-Christian “Charity-only” poverty solution is both evil and ineffective
… [The following excerpt is from my book, “Rescuing Religion from Republican Reason.”] … The Charity Argument How do Republican Christians avoid sounding like the devil while opposing a taxation system that redistributes wealth to the needy? They promote charity as the sole solution. In other words, they believe that if mandatory wealth redistribution were… Read more »
