Congress Did The Right Thing

They voted to turn down the COLA and the bill is on the presidents desk awaiting his signature.

In a way, that is too bad because I was getting ready to have another go at this subject. So now I have to write another blog message.

Luckily its Sunday and I can blog about the preachers sermon this morning.

Actually this blog wont touch on the sermon, but will be about church membership and what it means to many Christians (I was daydreaming about this during the sermon, sorry pastor).

Today, I suddenly realized that there was a reason that many Liberals have the mindset they do about taxation and social reform. Its because many of them are non church affiliated. Many will say they are Christians but not know the meaning of what they are claiming. They went to a Christian church as children and feel that it was absorbed by osmosis and feel no real need to attend anymore. And many others consider religion to be a crutch that they don't need. Maybe in this life, but one day they will be in the after life looking for that crutch they threw away and now cant get to.

Many Christians believe in the tithe for today, even though most admit that it is an Old Testament requirement that is no longer incumbent upon the modern Christian. Even so they still feel comfortable with the practice, 10% of their income to the "Church". I put that in quotes because one can consider the "Church" to be the entire spectrum of charity. In other words not necessarily all of that 10% needs to go in the collection plate, but it can be spread around to many other charities directly, which, by the way, is much more efficient. Also donating ones time to a charity fits within that tithe.

However the Liberal, non-Christian or atheist doesn't feel this need to charity so it makes very good sense to him/her to have government forcefully take it away from you and "redistribute" it on your behalf.

Perhaps the tax law should be written so that you have the option of sending the money to Washington for "redistribution" or you can submit your 1040 with the list of charities to which you have sent the money. In other words you get full tax CREDIT (not deduction) for the full amount that you, individually, redistribute? It would be far more efficient and far less invasive.

Jim Isbell
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