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Whose MONEY Is It, Anyway?

Whose MONEY Is It, Anyway?.

On a tangental note, immigration is actually the bigggest reason I’m against too many social services. By definition, it’s impossible to provide unlimited free services – free education, free child care, free medicine, free soup – to an unlimited supply of people. So, as long as we are providing those services, and the more of those services we provide, the more we are going to be closed off to foreigners joining our community. We just can’t afford to support everyone who’s here, plus everyone who comes through on their way to somewhere else. I’m in favor of open immigration, even with all the crime control problems and evangelism opportunities that come with it. So I must be against all those social services that give people reasons to be against immigration.

Honor, Respect & Taxes

Honor, Respect & Taxes.

This is a good theological meditation. But it sets me thinking about “Tax Freedom Day.” Whoever does the math for that isn’t paying attention to tax brackets and the idea of a progressive tax system. Not everybody hits tax freedom day at the same time, because not everybody pays the same percentage of their income. Canada as a whole may hit tax freedom day around June 6, but I seriously doubt Tim Challies as a pastor and christian author pays a full 43% of his income.

My tax freedom day, for the last 10 years, I think, has been some time in December of the previous year. I get more back than I put in. That’s what you call *really* progressive, and while I appreciate it, I’m not sure that I approve.