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The DeLay Principle and God |
"The federal estate tax had its origins in war." So begins Paul Krugman in his op-ed piece for Friday's New York Times. Krugman quotes Tom DeLay on war and taxes:
"Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes," declared Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, in 2003.
An effort to completely repeal the estate tax narrowly failed in the U.S. Senate last week. Krugman writes:
"Theodore Roosevelt ... called for an inheritance tax in 1906: "The man of great wealth," said T.R., "owes a peculiar obligation to the state." The inheritance and other taxes need to be understood as a dominionist issue.
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America's Providential History, a textbook popular in Christian schools and the Christian homeschool movement teaches history from "a biblical worldview." And inheritance taxes are "nowhere in the Bible." In addition, income tax is "idolatry," and property tax is "theft... "specifically forbidden in Scripture." (p.214)
If you are not convinced that tax cutting is a dominionist issue, go to my favorite dominionist document, The Texas Republican Party Platform:
The Party urges the IRS be abolished, [and the following taxes eliminated]: income tax, inheritance tax, gift tax, capital gains, corporate income tax, payroll tax and property tax.
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