An argument for a new tax system

The ascendancy of lawyers, bankers and political professions is as sure
a sign of any that our society is becoming less free and more
tyrannical.

In many ways, these professions have replaced scribes and Pharisees as
the money-changers in our temples. Just as the scribes and Pharisees
interposed themselves between the average believer and God, so lawyers,
bankers and politicians have interposed themselves between the citizen
and society.

However, when we as individuals begin to open our hearts to one another
and rekindle moral excellence as the primary social currency, the need
for oppressive laws and taxation lessens. Not to mention the deadening
impact lawyers and so many laws have on the cultivation of virtues in
the first place.

It’s to the point where we’ve stopped talking about what’s right and wrong and more about what’s legal or illegal — what one can successfully get away with, instead of what one should do.

What’s right or wrong hinges more on recent case law — whether Napster or the recording industry won, for example. When trying to determine whether a course of action is good for the soul or the community of which we’re a part, it’s more “What did the Supreme Court recently say?” than “What would Jesus do?”

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