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Originally posted by brianna
No, there's not. Not when you vote for a person who advocates cutting welfare and education and art programs and working against universal health care and social security all in favor of giving you back some tax money. Your argument would be valid if the majority of Christians (and hell the majority of PEOPLE) took their tax return money and spent it on helping the poor and disenfranchised -- but we don't. And if you're not claiming some moral superiority as a Christian than i don't fault you quite so much for buying that big screen tv but if you're going to act as if you live jesus' message everyday you have to do more than just preach about who you think deserves to go to hell -- you have to support the programs that help the poor. It would be nice if we didn't need such programs -- if the haves among us were willing without government intervention to help the have nots -- but clearly that is not the case.
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The government has no place giving my money to someone else period. You want to force me to do what you think is good, at gunpoint, often quite literally.
Yet people whine about the religious right? When they threaten to close your business or take your house because you haven't giving to the church or prayed lately then come whining about it. Thats what the IRS does.