If you listen to the liberal church you would be excused for thinking that high taxation is a a sound, moral way forward. It originates from trite, Robin Hood attitudes. Similarly, you will be asked to believe that the greater the state interference in life, the more just the government. This is effectively what socialists and lib Dems tend to take as an article of faith and the area which Cameron's tories are now considering.
Unfortunately, this has a number of predictable effects. The state becomes the 'nanny state'. It encourages dependence and discourages the virtue of self-reliance. Ultimately, it makes society more unfair as many are pushed into becoming non contributors.
If governments were genuinely using the excess monies to help the genuinely needy and excellent social projects such as Health, it would be harder to attack but the records of successive governments in spending money badly and encouraging worthless bureaucracy are lamentable.
So rapacious is our present government that it extracted £145 BILLION more from the country last year - a figure beyond imagination. The proportion of national income going to line Treasury coffers is now more than 37% - way beyond even ultra high tax Germany.
Destroying competitiveness damages enterprise.Christians should not blithely assume that these levels of taxation are legitimate.
Is it the plutocrats who pay? Of course not. It is the ordinary person who works. The sting in the tail is that we are so propagandised that most people do not even see the depth of the injustice. Taxation is rising in the UK but worldwide, this is now beginning to be seen as a major social negative.
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